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new nouveau riche en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, uncommon, uncountable, usually) Individuals who have emerged more recently into wealth compared to the traditional nouveau riche.
    • 'It can be argued that new shopping developments in the high street are mainly for luxury consumption and for the leisure of the new nouveau riches and foreigners, with over nine-tenths of the population being reduced to the role of window-shopping.' 2001, Greg Richards (editor), Cultural Attractions and European Tourism, page 216:
    • The teen-age girl is the last of the big spenders; she's the new nouveau riche. 1967, Manuel Rosenberg (editor), Markets of America, Volume 31, page 12:
    • It gave rise to a new nouveau riche, apparently consisting of middlemen, commission agents, and comprador merchants who thrived on imported goods. 1986, Hamied Ansari, Egypt, The Stalled Society, page 183:
    • The mentality, and the eventual demise, of the new nouveau riche, self-proclaimed owners of the City of Lagos lies in their belief that they have risen and would continue to stay above the law. 2006, Benneth Nnaedozie Okpala, The Shadow Knows:

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