nouveau riche
a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
Origin of nouveau riche
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How to use nouveau riche in a sentence
Then the international monetary boom and its immediate effects on China transformed the middle class into the nouveau riche.
And Jack come home from a long cruise, with prize-money in his pockets, was as ostentatious as any nouveau riche.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. HarperHe really is a typical nouveau riche out of a novel (not one of your novels, darling).
Happy House | Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von Hutten zum Stolzenberg"It looks rather—rather nouveau riche," said Clara, surveying the result.
Murder in Any Degree | Owen JohnsonOne dozen bonbon dishes, five nouveau riche sugar shakers (we never use them), three muffineers—in heaven's name, what's that?
Murder in Any Degree | Owen Johnson
A case of nouveau riche retaining their old habits while their palace was being built.
A Journal from Japan | Marie Carmichael Stopes
British Dictionary definitions for nouveau riche
/ (ˌnuːvəʊ ˈriːʃ, French nuvo riʃ) /
(often plural) a person who has acquired wealth recently and is regarded as vulgarly ostentatious or lacking in social graces
of or characteristic of the nouveaux riches
Origin of nouveau riche
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for nouveau riche
[ (nooh-voh reesh) ]
A pejorative term for one who has recently become rich and who spends money conspicuously. From French, meaning “new rich.”
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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