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单词 nouveau
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nouveaun.

Brit. /ˈnuːvəʊ/, /nuːˈvəʊ/, U.S. /ˌnuˈvoʊ/
Inflections: Plural nouveaus, nouveaux.
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: nouveau riche n.
Etymology: Short for nouveau riche n.Not found in French in this sense.
derogatory.
= nouveau riche n. Usually in plural.In quot. 1927: (perhaps) that which characterizes the nouveau riche.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person > newly rich person
parvenu1787
nouveau richea1796
new rich1892
narikin1918
nouveau1927
noove1983
Essex man1990
1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 246/1 There is never, even in his worst plays, a trace of the nouveau about Maugham.
1975 N.Y. Mag. 16 June 56/1 Hip actor-model types, a lot of nouveaux in high rises.
1981 C. Ross Scaffold 21 His wife..was not the jumped-up nouveau that he had anticipated.
1988 Financial Times 3 Sept. ii. p. xx/6 We are a nice cosy bunch. We don't want any frightful nouveaus jostling in and shouting, revving their Volvos, frightening the horses.
2001 Independent 4 Apr. i. 9 (heading) Could the naff nouveaux stop making a show of themselves?
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

nouveauadj.

Brit. /ˈnuːvəʊ/, U.S. /ˌnuˈvoʊ/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French nouveau.
Etymology: < French nouveau new (see novel adj.). In sense 1 after nouveau riche n. With sense 2 compare art nouveau n., nouveau roman n. Compare new adj. 8b. Compare earlier nouvelle adj.
1. Frequently depreciative. Of a person or group of people: having recently acquired wealth or position (usually with connotations of ostentation or vulgarity); nouveau riche. Also: characteristic of or belonging to such a person or group.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective] > newly rich
new rich1857
nouveau riche1874
nouveau1955
new money1986
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [adjective] > recently acquired
nouveau1955
1955 Holiday Jan. 76/3 The Hollywood rich were flamboyantly nouveau in the 1920s.
1966 Guardian 12 Jan. 7/6 The nouveau middle classes who just pulled themselves out of the two up and two down.
1971 Rolling Stone 24 June 15/2 He walks around the swimming pool behind his nouveau-money home.
1993 Fort Collins (Colorado) Triangle Rev. 12 Aug. 4/3 He is just not glitzy enough for the uppity-yuppity crowd that tries to dominate the gossip..of nouveau backwater-bayous like our town.
2. Characteristic of the modern style; up to date, modern, fashionable. Also: designating a musical genre, political movement, subculture, etc., which supersedes, updates, or revives an earlier form of the same kind.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective] > modern
modern1585
new-schoolish1844
New World1847
latter day1850
contemporary1859
unantiquated1859
todayish1864
contemporaneous1871
modernistic1878
presentist1878
up to date1888
down to date1893
up-with-the-times1893
de nos jours1909
up to the minute1909
chromium-plate1924
chromium-plated1924
contempo1944
now1955
New Wave1960
nouveau1974
1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens vi. 287 Still others may be the children of the noveau [sic] liberated or ‘swinger’ parents who have not taught them how to control or withdraw their sensory sexual impulses.
1982 Face May 4/1 King of nouveau smooch Vic Godard.
1986 Sunday Express Mag. 2 Nov. 12/3 Regine wants to shock, revolutionise and woo London to her £2 million nouveau niterie, housed in the old Empress Club in Berkeley Street.
1998 S. Reynolds Energy Flash vi. 173 Equating contemplation with complacency, nouveau punks like Manic Street Preachers and These Animal Men lambasted ambient-heads as nouveau hippies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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