nouvelle
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of nouvelle
Extracted from nouvelle cuisine
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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
Several butchers in Saint-Quentin were closed on Thursday, local news outlet L'Aisne nouvelle reported.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
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
Ringed by a froth of vin jaune sauce, it plays like a lost classic of nouvelle cuisine.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
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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