nouveau
newly or recently created, developed, or come to prominence: The sudden success of the firm created several nouveau millionaires.
Origin of nouveau
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How to use nouveau in a sentence
Lviv is so beautifully preserved, its just-rightly jaded art nouveau buildings give such a well-worn patina of time, that you never know what century you are in.
The scenes, captured in Philip Montgomery’s nouveau noir style, feel as if they’re narrated over a crackling radio broadcast declaring hard truths about the state of the country.
These have the pared-down, Pre-Modernist look of Art nouveau.
The Magazine That Made—and Unmade—Politicians | Anthony Haden-Guest | November 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe day we were supposed to shoot this, the Beaujolais nouveau comes out.
Rob Reiner on the State of Romcoms, ‘The Princess Bride’s’ Alternate Ending, and the Red Viper | Marlow Stern | July 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe façade bore all the trendy trappings of the Art nouveau movement that swept across the European continent.
Horses may be the nouveau eco-friendly delivery van in some parts, but apparently not in big cities.
In nouveau hipster and increasingly expensive Brooklyn, nearly a quarter of people live below the poverty line.
Richard Florida Concedes the Limits of the Creative Class | Joel Kotkin | March 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTVoyez l'efficace du sacrement: le lendemain matin, il mande M. de Biancourt et moy, et de nouveau il recommence sa harangue.
And Jack come home from a long cruise, with prize-money in his pockets, was as ostentatious as any nouveau riche.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. HarperOn n'y apprend rien de nouveau, et cependant il attache et intresse.
Baron d'Holbach | Max Pearson CushingHe really is a typical nouveau riche out of a novel (not one of your novels, darling).
Happy House | Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von Hutten zum StolzenbergMa place au Commerce n'a pas eu de suite; je suis de nouveau sur le pav.
Vie de Bohme | Orlo Williams
British Dictionary definitions for nouveau
before a plural noun nouveaux
/ (ˈnuːvəʊ) /
(prenominal) facetious, or derogatory having recently become the thing specified: a nouveau hippy
Origin of nouveau
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