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‖ nouveau riche|nuvo riʃ|
Pl. nouveaux riches. Also fem. nouvelle riche (rare).
[Fr.]
One who has recently attained to wealth; usu. with connotation of ostentation or vulgar show. Also attrib. or as adj.
1813M. Edgeworth Let. 6 Apr. (1971) 15 Larry the footboy and Mrs. Rafferty's dinner are nothing to what has been seen at the dinners of les nouveaux riches at Liverpool and Manchester. 1828Lytton Pelham I. xxiii. 193 You never pass by the white and modern mansion of a nouveau riche. 1838W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xxvi. 560 This same nouveau riche used to serve gold dust, says Herrera, instead of salt, at his entertainments. 1853C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe II. xvii. 278 His manner became so dry and repellent that visitors went away moralizing on the absurdity of nouveaux riches taking so much state on them. 1863‘Ouida’ Strathmore (1865) I. vi. 96 She was a nouvelle riche, and brought him money. 1899E. Wharton Greater Inclination 187 She had none of the nouveau riche prudery which classes poverty with the nude in art. 1936F. Clune Roaming round Darling vi. 58 The hovels they occupy are made of mud, except a few palaces of their nouveaux riches. 1957A. E. Coppard It's Me, O Lord! iii. 37 Modern upstarts such as the piano are as inelegant as nouveaux riches in a cathedral. 1957New Yorker 2 Nov. 76/1 The elder members of the two families..are..rather crudely drawn caricatures of the nouveau riche. 1959G. Savage Antique Collector's Handbk. 238 The industrializing process which started in the 1750s had gained considerable ground by the end of the century, and the Napoleonic Wars, by creating a nouveau riche class, succeeded in debasing taste to an extremely low level. 1966R. Ellison in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 404 Some of the nouveau riche oilmen who were members of the club. 1972T. Aronson Queen Victoria & Bonapartes ix. 111 The society of the Second Empire—the courtesans, the financiers, the foreign adventurers, the nouveaux riches. |