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nouveau riche

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

noun

, plural nou·veaux riches [noo, -voh , reesh, noo-voh , reesh].
  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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Word History and Origins

Origin of nouveau riche1

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

Origin of nouveau riche1

French, literally: new rich
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Example Sentences

Then the international monetary boom and its immediate effects on China transformed the middle class into the nouveau riche.

And Jack come home from a long cruise, with prize-money in his pockets, was as ostentatious as any nouveau riche.

He really is a typical nouveau riche out of a novel (not one of your novels, darling).

"It looks rather—rather nouveau riche," said Clara, surveying the result.

One dozen bonbon dishes, five nouveau riche sugar shakers (we never use them), three muffineers—in heaven's name, what's that?

A case of nouveau riche retaining their old habits while their palace was being built.

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