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nouveaux riches

n. (plural of nouveau riche English)

Usage examples of "nouveaux riches".

Likewise, a class of fabulously wealthy nouveaux riches has arisen among those engaged in smuggling, virtually all of whom are connected to the regime.

Enter the nouveaux riches, riding to power as the Harkonnens did, on the backs of the ancient regime.

But the great trek of the post-war American nouveaux riches to Paris had spoiled his pleasure in this annual pilgrimage.

But there was too much Silver, too much ornate china-ware, too many cut-glass decanters on display to indicate anything but that the Rondin's were nouveaux riches.

Here the nouveaux riches display themselves, to the chagrin of waiters who until a year or two ago served only Mirenburg's aristocracy.