How to Use nouveau in a Sentence

nouveau

adjective
  • Lucky for us, this falls right in line with the nouveau normcore trend for spring and the best fall 2023 fashion trends from the runways.
    Dale Arden Chong, ELLE, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The building has a nouveau mid-century flair with neutral tones and a turquoise wall accent.
    Cindy Carcamostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
  • From the nouveau-style tempranillo to their late harvest pinot gris, there is never a dull moment at their winery and tasting room in the scenic hills above Amity.
    Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Pinot noir-lovers might like to know that Rahn recently made a refreshing nouveau-style pinot for New Seasons Market.
    Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Oz, by contrast, carries on him the markers of a salesman hawking wares to a nouveau-riche easily tempted by snake oil.
    Jill Filipovic, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Large open spaces, high ceilings and a nouveau gothic aesthetic serve to enhance the looming presence of an aging building and the spirits which haunt it.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Her sweet and adorable calico dresses and piecrust collars disappeared in this period; gone, too, were the puffy, nouveau romantic gowns.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Unlike typical, nouveau food-trucks, the taco bus is parked semi-permanently.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Even throughout her pregnancy, Potts didn’t go the typical maternity route and instead embraced nouveau pregnancy style à la Rihanna, baring her belly in low-slung pants and tiny T-shirts.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 8 July 2022
  • A 21st century football brand fueled by endless promise; a nouveau-riche social, commercial and cultural phenomena; a superstar who's no stranger to the scrutiny of the public eye.
    Aleks Klosok, CNN, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Muriel Spark’s more astringent, nouveau roman–style performances may be another starting place for comparisons—or maybe Ottessa Moshfegh’s delicious cruelties.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • In 1921, movie stardom had upended the traditional social hierarchy, and Arbuckle’s celebrated spending turned into a cautionary tale of nouveau-riche decadence.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021

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