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
It’s the moment when old-school French — think white tablecloths, heavy sauces and snooty maitre’d’s — faded into the background, allowing nouvelle cuisine and what we now call New American to take its place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
Several butchers in Saint-Quentin were closed on Thursday, local news outlet L'Aisne nouvelle reported.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
Its obsessive characters, abrupt transitions, abstract narrative and hyper-naturalistic attention to detail also recall the French nouvelle romans of Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
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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