Definition of "nouveau" []

• New and different, often fashionably so: "The perfect [Los Angeles] combination: a gas station that is also a nouveau convenience store” ( David Mermelstein). (adjective)

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• "To them Palin is a pawn and not even worth the title nouveau riche."
• "Beaujolais nouveau is little more than a French prank that the Japanese have fallen for hook, line and sinker."
• "His father, of humble origin, could accurately be described as a nouveau riche."