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nouveau

[ noo-voh, noo-voh ]

adjective

  1. newly or recently created, developed, or come to prominence:

    The sudden success of the firm created several nouveau millionaires.



nouveau

/ ˈԳːəʊ /

adjective

  1. facetious.
    prenominal having recently become the thing specified

    a nouveau hippy

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of nouveau1

1805–15; < French: new; Old French novel < Latin novellus; novel 2
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of nouveau1

C20: French, literally: new; on the model of nouveau riche
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Example Sentences

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The real language police are inside the White House, and they’re running with a nouveau take on “alternative facts” all these years later.

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Writer Raphael Brion noted that she has considered calling it “grandma cooking nouveau.”

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Who does Johnson consider nouveau riche?

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She was both the very famous star of Paris’s Folies Bergère and an icon of the Art Nouveau movement, with an eye toward the possibilities abstraction held for dance.

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There was a silver tea service from Russia, an Art Nouveau card table, an ancient medallion from Sicily bearing an image of Persephone, luggage from Louis Vuitton and Goyard, and drawings by the French poet and playwright Jean Cocteau.

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