nouveau riche

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Back in 1990, Mike Davis caused a sensation with his “City of Quartz,” which recounts stories about forgotten socialist communes, brush fires, the birth of L.A. noir and the scandals of L.A.’s old money and its nouveau riche.

From New York Times

Wrexham are no nouveau riche, plastic club.

From BBC

Cameron, whose show is running at the Apollo Theater through May 7, first came to the New Diorama’s attention in 2018, when he and his company, Nouveau Riche, won the theater’s Edinburgh Untapped Award.

From New York Times

In February, after a Saudi novelist wrote on Twitter that Egypt had its “neck tied to aid from here or there,” the Egyptian newspaper editor Abdelrazek Tawfik referred to the Gulf countries as “barefoot and naked” nouveau riche who have no right to dictate to Egypt.

From New York Times

More ominous is the fear that their success has caught the eye of what some describe as Mexico’s “oligarchs” — old, wealthy families from the cities and nouveau riche drug cartel bosses whose investments have filled places like Cancun and Cabo San Lucas with all-inclusive resorts that destroy local business.

From Los Angeles Times