new richn.adj.

1798 Monthly Rev. 27 App. 555 The new rich [in Paris] are continually assailed by satirists and epigrammatists.

1837 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. I. 237 It is..an especial misfortune of England, that the New Rich..are content to seek consequence by swimming in shoals, in the wake of the Aristocracy.

1926 A. Bennett Ld. Raingo i. xxxv. 165 He had demonstrated publicly..that he belonged to the type of the new rich.

1973 R. Ludlum Matlock Paper xvi. 139 The blooded first families..migrated just a little west to avoid the new rich.

1996 Independent 13 Aug. ii. 2/2 The usual crowds—old rich, new rich, and not rich at all, who reclaim their territory after the annual film festival—throng the broadwalk.

1892 W. F. Mozier in T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace 166 (note) Saint James was a ‘new-rich’ and was willing to do anything to gain favor at court.

1909 Daily Chron. 3 Nov. 3/5 It is concerned with the intrusion of Saul Dene, a ‘new rich’, into a Yorkshire country set.

1955 A. Ussher Journey through Dread i. 47 It was a bourgeois pretence, like the mansion of a new rich.

1857 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 682/2 It has been a fashion at times to decry a ‘new rich man’, and especially the self-created millionaire.

a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) ii. 59 It gives you the idea that we're not new-rich and showy and all.

1923 ‘B. M. Bower’ Parowan Bonanza xiii. 157 You've never seen me look New-rich, have you, Bill?

1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) vi. 172 Mrs. Dolly Kalamanja was a small woman wearing big jewellery, a new-rich grande dame who believed in ‘putting on a show’.