Definitions for nouveau-riche

nouveau-riche nou·veau riche

Spelling: [noo-voh reesh; French noo-voh Nouveau-Riche is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 767 anagrams from letters in nouveau-riche (-aceehinoruuv).

Definitions for nouveau-riche

noun

  1. a person who is newly rich:

Origin of nouveau-riche

1805-15; French: new rich (person)

Examples for nouveau-riche

"nouveau riche," thought Drusilla Browne, looking up from her own letters.

Then the international monetary boom and its immediate effects on China transformed the middle class into the nouveau riche.

What I didn't tell you is that we're nouveau riche—no class at all.

One saw it was not the over-dressing of the nouveau riche, but the rather old-world dandyism of a past generation.

They buy their dresses at a place called Kress-Worth and look like Paris nouveau riche.

A case of nouveau riche retaining their old habits while their palace was being built.

We belong to that despised class, 'nouveau riche,' therefore we are extremely short on noted ancestors and relics and things.

One dozen bonbon dishes, five nouveau riche sugar shakers (we never use them), three muffineers—in heaven's name, what's that?

Tiglath then begins to boast about his gorgeous new residence with all the vulgarity of a nouveau riche.

But the demi-god has always much of the nouveau riche about him, and a gentleman is, after all, an exquisite product.

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