单词 | nouveau poor |
释义 | nouveau poorn. With plural agreement. With the. Recently impoverished people as a class; the nouveau pauvre. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > recently poor person > collectively nouveau poor1916 new poor1920 1916 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily News 9 Aug. 6/3 Today it [sc. gasoline] is sold to the nouveau-poor by multi-millionaires..at rates that make champagne look as cheap as rain. 1921 ‘B. Blinders’ (title) The nouveau poor: a romance of real life in West London after the late war. 1959 Times 12 Sept. 1/4 (advt.) For the nouveau-poor. A sound wine to suit your taste and at a price to permit everyday drinking awaits you amongst our extensive selection. 1969 Jrnl. Health & Social Behavior 10 269/2 If some Negro doctors belong to the nouveau riche, others are in danger of becoming the ‘nouveau poor’. 1986 Los Angeles Times 21 Dec. (Valley ed.) ii. 14/1 E. J.'s Gems goes out on the street and seeks out what I call ‘A, the nouveau poor’ and ‘B, the misfits’. 2001 Investors Digest (Malaysia) 13 Sept. 31 The bubble burst and attitudes slowly started changing among the nouveau poor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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