nouveau riche

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From the French nouveau riche (new rich)

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nouveau riche (plural nouveaux riches)

  1. (pejorative) New money; wealthy persons whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who are therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy.

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"nouveau riche" is sometimes treated as a singular noun with the plural nouveaux riches and sometimes as a plural noun with no separate singular form.

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