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nouveau
,   (before a plural noun)   nouveaux
      adj   prenominal
Facetious or derogatory   having recently become the thing specified
a nouveau hippy
     (C20: French, literally: new; on the model of nouveau riche)

Art Nouveau (French)
n

a a style of art and architecture of the 1890s, characterized by swelling sinuous outlines and stylized natural forms, such as flowers and leaves

b    (as modifier)
an Art-Nouveau mirror
     (French, literally: new art)

nouveau riche (French)
n pl , nouveaux riches (French)

1 often pl and preceded by: the a person who has acquired wealth recently and is regarded as vulgarly ostentatious or lacking in social graces
adj

2 of or characteristic of the nouveaux riches
(French, literally: new rich)

nouveau roman     (French)
      n   pl   , nouveaux romans      another term for     →   anti-roman

See     →   antinovel
     (literally: new novel)

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