27 September 2016

nouveau riche

[noo-voh reesh; French noo-voh reesh]

noun, plural nouveaux riches [noo-voh reesh; French noo-voh reesh] (Show IPA)

1. a person who is newly rich:
the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.

Origin of nouveau riche
1805-1815; < French: new rich (person)

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Examples from the Web for nouveau riche

Contemporary Examples

Then the international monetary boom and its immediate effects on China transformed the middle class into the nouveau riche.
How China Conquered the Art World
Arne Glimcher
March 10, 2009

Historical Examples

The nouveau riche of the new Plutocratic type comes thrusting among you, demonstrating that sometimes quite obtrusively.
New Worlds For Old
Herbert George Wells

What I didn’t tell you is that we’re nouveau riche —no class at all.
The Plastic Age
Percy Marks

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Today’s quote

If we’re always guided by other people’s thoughts, what’s the point in having our own?

– Oscar Wilde

On this day

27 September 1540 – The Jesuits (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius Loyola.

27 September 1660 – death of St Vincent de Paul, Catholic priest, born in France, who dedicated himself to serving the poor. Born 24 April 1581.

27 September 1722 – birth of Samuel Adams, American revolutionary and founding father. Died 2 October 1803.

27 September 1947 – birth of Marvin Lee Aday, American rocker – otherwise known as Meatloaf.

27 September 1961 – birth of Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer – ‘Train-spotting‘, ‘Ecstasy‘.

27 September 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cuban embassy in Mexico to apply for a Cuban visa. The embassy initially denies the visa, stating that the man was not Lee Harvey Oswald. The embassy said he would need Soviet approval. Following scrutiny from the KGB and CIA, and intense debate between the Soviets, Cuba and Oswald (?) the visa was finally issued. Oswald, or the man purporting to be Oswald, never travelled to Cuba, but returned to the U.S. on 3 October 1963 … conspiracy, anyone?