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▪ I. ‖ nouvelle|nuvɛl|
[Fr.]
A short piece of fictitious narrative, freq. one dealing with a single situation or a single aspect of a character or characters.
1680H. Savile Let. 24 Feb. in W. D. Cooper Savile Corr. (1858) 140 Disposed to those kind of books you mention of nouvell's and other entretiens of folly and levity. [1717M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Jan. (1965) I. 293 Would you have me write novelles like the Countess of D'Aunois?] 1887Athenæum 1 Jan. 10/2 M. de Maupassant's ‘Petite Roque’, a collection of nouvelles written with his usual cleverness. 1917G. Saintsbury Hist. Fr. Novel I. iv. 88 The faults of long-windedness, of otiose padding, of unnecessary episodes, etc., are almost mechanically or mathematically impossible in the nouvelle. 1935S. Spender Destructive Element 48 Many other of the stories of this period, especially what he [sc. Henry James] called the ‘nouvelles’, as distinct from the short stories which are more in the nature of the anecdote. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Mar. 182/1 Mademoiselle B—is a nouvelle in a recognizable style (it reads as if it had been intelligently translated from the French) and a familiar convention. 1975Times 5 Apr. 5/7 What we learnt from Henry James to call a nouvelle, which I take to be a fictional narrative longer than a long short-story and shorter than a short novel.
▪ II. ‖ nouvelle, a.|nuvɛl, nuːˈvɛl|
[F. nouvelle, fem. of nouveau new.]
1. = novel a. 2 a. Cf. *nouveau a. 2. Now rare or Obs.
1781in T. Wilkinson Wandering Patentee (1795) II. 106 Mr Wilkinson..submits to the public, if he could bring forward detached acts from Shakespear, Massinger, and others..it would be affording a nouvelle and instructive amusement for one night's performance. 1812P. Egan Boxiana 347 His nouvelle rapid style of execution baffled all his competitors. 1818[see fly n.2 3 b]. 1823‘J. Bee’ Slang 210 Nouvelle—style, and ‘quite nouvelle manner of flooring, his man, the John Bull boxer, &c.’ The word means new; but the impropriety, the silliness of introducing this and a thousand such French words, to explain transactions that are purely English, must strike every one (except ‘the historian’) that 'tis a bul[l] confessed.
2. Gastron. Of, pertaining to, or making use of nouvelle cuisine; spec. designating a restaurant specializing in this style of cooking, or food prepared in this way. Also Comb. as nouvelle-style.
1975Newsweek 11 Aug. 53/1 Loup de Mer en Croûte..was not exactly light, but Bocuse justifies its nouvelle standing by cooking the fish for a mere two minutes under very high heat. 1977Bon Appétit May 24/1 Flour, butter and cream were cut back even below the nouvelle minimum. 1981Cuisine Jan.–Feb. 18/2 But few of [the recipes]..are for elaborate restaurant masterpieces buried under lavish decorations, nor are they the most ostentatiously nouvelle of the nouvelle. 1983N.Y. Times 27 Feb. x36/6 The food at the Mariposa matches that found in some of New York's best nouvelle restaurants. 1985Eating Out in London (Time Out) 12/3 They do an amazing value set lunch at {pstlg}8, which is good; light, nouvelle-style food. 1986Guardian 28 Feb. 12/8 The cooking is modern without being nouvelle. 1988N.Y. Times 30 Sept. c21/3 As SoHo rents soared, TriBeCa became a mecca, first for painters and performance artists, then nightclubs and nouvelle bistros, and finally real-estate agents cashing in on the area's new-found cachet. |