1680 H. Savile Corr. (1858) 24 Feb. 140 Disposed to those kind of books you mention of nouvell's and other entretiens of folly and levity.

1858 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 221 Some months later the Revue des Deux Mondes published a nouvelle by the same author, entitled Tolla Feraldi.

1882 ‘S. Tytler’ Sc. Marriages I. vii Sitting..at a window fanning herself, ganting over a nouvelle.

1887 Athenæum 1 Jan. 10/2 M. de Maupassant's ‘Petite Roque’, a collection of nouvelles written with his usual cleverness.

1917 G. Saintsbury Hist. French 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.

1959 Times 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.

1993 Rev. Eng. Stud. Nov. 607 The nouvelle or novella was..the form he liked best.

1650 R. Heath Clarastella 2 Would not admire that every Country so Should vary phansies, and thus strangely affect A nouvell diet with their Dialect?

1718 W. Taverner Artful Wife ii. 21 When you address me, let it be in a nouvelle Manner.

1720 J. Leigh Kensington-Gardens ii. 25 You may chance to hear a Love-Scene entirely Nouvelle, and perhaps not unpleasant.

1781 in 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.

1812–13 P. Egan Boxiana I. 347 His [sc. Jem Belcher's] nouvelle rapid style of execution baffled all his competitors.

1818 C. Wright Brighton Ambulator 170 A nouvelle kind of four-wheel vehicles, drawn by a man and an assistant, are very accommodating to visitors.

1858 Titan Jan.–June 425/2 His first meeting with the Wyndhams, though unknown to them, was quite of a nouvelle character.

1995 Velvet Light Trap No. 35. 19 (title) Marginal marginalia: the African-American voice in the nouvelle gangster film.

1975 Newsweek 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.

1981 Cuisine 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.

1988 N.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.

2001 N.Y. Mag. 19 Mar. 68/3 The fish are barely visible under a nouvelle thatch of hydroponic roughage.

1986 W 29 Dec. 11/2 Nouvelle Society does not believe in no-frills living.

1987 Guardian (Nexis) 15 Jan. In New York, they're the leading lights of what W magazine calls Nouvelle Society.

1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Nov. 72/4 Many luminaries of the 80's Nouvelle Society..have lowered their social profiles, sensitive to the new climate and after two years of overexposure.

2001 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 5 Nov. 26 This week, we head uptown to meet former pouf-skirt-wearing princess royal of 80's Nouvelle Society, Blaine Trump.