单词 | nouveau pauvre |
释义 | nouveau pauvre/ˌnuːvəʊ ˈpəʊvrə/noun A person who has recently become poor. Also with the: such people as a class (treated as plural). adjective Of a person or group of people: recently impoverished. OriginLate 19th century; earliest use found in The Atlantic Monthly. From French nouveau new + pauvre poor n.1, after nouveau riche adjective French nouveau pauvre is apparently not attested until the 1930s, and the English probably represents an independent formation. |
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