nouvelle
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of nouvelle
Extracted from nouvelle cuisine
Example Sentences
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He also explores yuppies’ attraction to marathons, nouvelle cuisine and Gary Hart, who ran a pair of lawyer-driven, technocratic campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
He’s not one to complain in restaurants — imagine the despair it would cause — but Pépin is no fan of “punctuation cooking,” nouvelle cuisine run amok with squeeze-bottle calligraphy.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2022
The most famous of these was a 40-foot mural for Rebecca’s, a popular nouvelle Mexican restaurant in Venice Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2020
In the fall of 1980, Patrick Clark, the first chef at Keith McNally’s first restaurant, the Odeon, helped introduce nouvelle cuisine to New York when it was all the rage in Europe.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2019
He kept all the Jewish deli and soda fountain touches and then added nouvelle Chinese to the menu.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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