nouvelle
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of nouvelle
Extracted from nouvelle cuisine
Example Sentences
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Several butchers in Saint-Quentin were closed on Thursday, local news outlet L'Aisne nouvelle reported.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025
Michel’s father and uncle, Pierre and Jean, were widely considered to be nouvelle cuisine pioneers, emblematized by a famous salmon and sorrel dish they invented.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2023
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 film was based on an idea by François Truffaut, another icon of the nouvelle vague, and began shooting in Paris without a script.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2021
Indians incorporated the new pigments into their traditions, expanding them and in the process creating an aesthetic nouvelle vague.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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