nouveau
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of nouveau
1805–15; < French: new; Old French novel < Latin novellus; see novel 2
Example Sentences
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But its “Romanesque churches, Renaissance synagogues, art nouveau apartments, and functionalist office buildings remind us that history shapes the present.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Unfortunately, Tony Dokoupil, the newly installed anchor of CBS Evening News and the face of the company’s nouveau regime-friendly rebrand, was not so lucky.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2026
Colman, who burst into my awareness in the 2003 TV cringe comedy “Peep Show,” is fantastic throwing jabs around in costume designer PC Williams’ nouveau hipster wardrobe of bold, baggy lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
In February 2022, Ms. Peterson, an author and art collector, was surrounded by a new clientele: the crypto nouveau riche, who made a temporary home of the art market.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2024
My lapse in standing was the misfortune of being from the nouveau pauvre side of what passed for an elegant family there in the Pittsburgh of the South.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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