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nouveau

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nou·veau  (nv, n-v)
adj.
New and different, often fashionably so: "The perfect [Los Angeles] combination: a gas station that is also a nouveau convenience store" (David Mermelstein).
[From phrases such as art nouveau.]
nouveau before a plural noun, nouveaux [ˈnuːvəʊ]
adj
(prenominal) Facetious or derogatory having recently become the thing specified a nouveau hippy
[French, literally: new; on the model of nouveau riche]


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He had been anxious about the reception he would have as a nouveau, for he had read a good deal of the rough joking to which a newcomer was exposed at some of the studios; but Mrs.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Stunned, Margaret did not move from the best parlour, over which the touch of art nouveau had fallen.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
, 1838; "Le nouveau Pere Adam et la nouvelle Mere Eve," 2 tom.
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