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nouveau riche

[ noo-voh reesh; French noo-voh reesh ]

noun

plural nouveaux riches
  1. a person who is newly rich:

    the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.



nouveau riche

/ ˌnuːvəʊ ˈriːʃ; nuvo riʃ /

noun

  1. often plural a person who has acquired wealth recently and is regarded as vulgarly ostentatious or lacking in social graces
“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

adjective

  1. of or characteristic of the nouveaux riches
“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

nouveau riche

  1. A pejorative term for one who has recently become rich and who spends money conspicuously. From French, meaning “new rich.”
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Origin of nouveau riche1

1805–15; < French: new rich (person)
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of nouveau riche1

French, literally: new rich
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In February 2022, Ms. Peterson, an author and art collector, was surrounded by a new clientele: the crypto nouveau riche, who made a temporary home of the art market.

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On the HBO costume drama “The Gilded Age,” Kelli O’Hara plays a New York grande dame forced to choose sides in an opera war: remain at the old guard’s Academy of Music, or defect to the Metropolitan Opera being built by the nouveau riche they had excluded.

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Filled with high-stake dramatic shoot-outs and neon nouveau riche glamour, the six-part Netflix series Griselda presents the notorious criminal as a hard done by yet savvy and ambitious woman.

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His sentences are full of nervy energy and irreverent wit: highly medicated patients at an elder care facility produce “mutant” excrement; a badminton coach past his prime looks like “Bruce Willis in yellow-brownface”; a nouveau riche character’s designer handbags are “so giant I swore they had gained consciousness and could swallow me whole, were I to transgress their master.”

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