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‖ nouveau, a. and n.|nuvo, nuːˈvəʊ|
Pl. nouveaux; anglicized -s.
[Fr., = new; in sense A. 1 after nouveau riche n. (cf. new a. 8 d).]
A. adj.
1. a. Of persons: possessing recently acquired wealth or position (usu. with connotation of ostentation or vulgar show); nouveau riche. Also of wealth so acquired.
1955Holiday Jan. 76/3 The Hollywood rich were flamboyantly nouveau in the 1920s. 1966Guardian 12 Jan. 7/6 The nouveau middle classes who just pulled themselves out of the two up and two down. 1971Rolling Stone 24 June 15/2 He walks around the swimming pool behind his nouveau-money home. 1987Observer (Colour Suppl.) 4 Oct. 65/1 Brits seem to believe that New Yorkers can spiritually launder their nouveau wealth by spending it on civilised English folk.
b. nouveau poor, partial tr. of nouveau pauvre n.
1975Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 22 Mar. 43/1 ‘We are the nouveau poor,’ wails a suburban matron viewing the shrunken dollar. 1976Abingdon Herald 25 Nov. 23/5 The Nouveau Poor..are the sort of people who a mere decade ago were probably causing equal social distress by being Nouveau Rich. 1986Los Angeles Times (Valley ed.) 21 Dec. ii. 14/1 ‘E. J.'s Gems goes out on the street and seeks out what I call ‘A, the nouveau poor’ and ‘B, the misfits’,’ Peaker said.
2. Characteristic of the modern style, up-to-date; new. Cf. nouvelle cuisine n., etc.
1974H. L. Foster Ribbin' vi. 287 Still others may be the children of the noveau [sic] liberated or ‘swinger’ parents who have not taught them how to control or withdraw their sensory sexual impulses. 1982Face May 4/1 King of nouveau smooch Vic Godard. 1985S. Lowry Young Fogey Handbk. v. 50 One college in particular has accrued fame (or infamy) as the hotbed of Nouveau Rightism. 1986Sunday Express Mag. 2 Nov. 12/3 Regine wants to shock, revolutionise and woo London to her {pstlg}2 million nouveau niterie, housed in the old Empress Club in Berkeley Street.
B. absol. as n. = nouveau riche n. (usu. in pl.).
1977Time 13 June 80/3 Almost all the nouveaux share a drive to accumulate assets beyond any expectation of liquidating the lucre. 1980Washington Post 20 Jan. e9/5 In fact, the Nouveaux could be heard muttering enviously that ‘the families are as antique as the antiques’. 1981C. Ross Scaffold 21 His wife..was not the jumped-up nouveau that he had anticipated. 1988Financial Times 3 Sept. ii. p. xx/6 We are a nice cosy bunch. We don't want any frightful nouveaus jostling in and shouting, revving their Volvos, frightening the horses. |