Sentence examples for were nouveau from inspiring English sources
adjective
New, fashionable.
"For a while, we were nouveau riche, but now we're getting the old money again".
His father was "a failed millinery manufacturer," Mr. Furst said, adding, "We were nouveau pauvre".
Andrew Wemyss, a valued friend, and frequent guest at Deene Park weekends – and who can trace his own ancestry back to around 1200 – reminisced: "By my standards the Brudenells were nouveau riche.
If you made a lot of money and boasted about it, you were nouveau, what they called nouveau riche, you know; somebody who's just got no taste, from 7th Avenue, who makes clothes, and he boasts about his houses, and his but now America has become that.
THE CROWD Visitors are nouveau Williamsburg: older, employed, mildly fashionable.
"These are nouveau tech millionaires," says Adeo Ressi, a coach for entrepreneurs.
"For the children of immigrants aspiring to be nouveau riche," he said, "that was the last thing you wanted.
The food inside may be nouveau sized, nouveau priced but hardly nouveau quality, yet myriad outlets in the mall outside mean you don't have to eat there.
He's nouveau riche, living next to Italian-American professionals and embarrassed by his working-class roots.
— Glenn Collins City Room: The beaujolais was nouveau, but the delivery vehicle was from 1976, back in the days when people still got excited about beaujolais parties like this one.
On a cast full of fighters — after all, these sorts of shows are nouveau soaps, modern pop operas — she stands out for her quick temper and willingness to rumble.
