nouveau riche
noun/ˌnuː.vəʊ ˈɹiːʃ/UK/ˌnu.voʊ ˈɹiʃ/US
Etymology
An unadapted borrowing from French nouveau riche (literally “new rich”).
Definitions
New money
New money; wealthy persons whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who are therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy.
- You must find your opening at Paris. I wish you to spend a year in the capital, and live, not extravagantly, like a nouveau riche, but in a way not unsuited to your rank, and permitting you all the social advantages that belong to it.
- Twenty-four hours later we were both in the vast halls of the Winter Palace in full uniform, as bedizened with gold as a nouveau riche’s drawing-room.
Newly rich
Newly rich; like a nouveau riche.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA