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Nouveau riche
Definitions
- 1 Newly rich; like a nouveau riche. not-comparable
"Her supreme charm was the simplicity that comes of taking it for granted that people are born with carriages and country-places: it never occurred to her that such congenital attributes could be matter for self-consciousness, and she had none of the nouveau riche prudery which classes poverty with the nude in art and is not sure how to behave in the presence of either."
- 1 New money; wealthy persons whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who are therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy. countable, derogatory, uncountable
"You must find your opening at Paris. I wish you to spend a year in the capital, and live, not extravagantly, like a nouveau riche, but in a way not unsuited to your rank, and permitting you all the social advantages that belong to it."
Etymology
An unadapted borrowing from French nouveau riche (literally “new rich”).
An unadapted borrowing from French nouveau riche (literally “new rich”).
See also for "nouveau riche"
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