nouveau riche
Example Sentences
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He moved the opera’s action to the time and place of its premiere: Vienna on the brink of World War I. He was inspired by Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s small but telling changes to the libretto, which made the Marschallin the wife of an army leader and Faninal a nouveau riche arms dealer.
From New York Times
The finals will be an odd-couple matchup, between a venerable franchise from hockey’s ancestral homeland and a nouveau riche crew from sunny Florida.
From New York Times
Cave-dwellers were even more dismissive of the nouveau riche robber barons who came to town during the Gilded Age.
From Washington Post
The entrepreneurs and speculators of Monument Avenue represented the “New South,” a postwar nouveau riche whose wealth came from industry and development, men who posed a political and social threat to the hierarchy once dominated by the old Colonial and planter classes.
From Washington Post
“They’re the nouveau riche of the war, the ones affiliated with militias who made money from sieges and checkpoints.”
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
