nouvelles
Americanplural noun
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Since 1945, France has been experimenting with special "classes nouvelles."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Now pleasant French nouvelles riches wear mink or sable coats as they trip down to the Mamounia Hotel's heated pool.*
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One has only to look at the common, so-called Elzevirian, volume of thirteenth-century nouvelles to see the Frenchman as he saw himself.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
But I have no nouvelles intimes and in this solitary way of life I don't ever feel especially like a person.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
For, upon a map of the world annexed to his book, at the spot where the new land is delineated, we read this inscription, Isles nouvelles Australes vuées par Monsieur de Pagès, en 1774.
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