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"nouveau riche" Definitions
  1. typical of people who have recently become rich and like to show how rich they are in a very obvious way
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In her cartoon universe, men were often nouveau riche posers.
It may not get any more nouveau riche than this.
The nouveau riche Parisians attracted top names to the French capital.
Pensioners moved out, their apartments snapped up by Russia's nouveau riche.
"It's become a status symbol among the nouveau riche," he said.
But it originally expressed the frustration of artists with nouveau-riche consumers.
The aristocracy once sniggered at the nouveau riche of the industrial revolution.
And yet those places have a nouveau riche and hipster vibe to them.
Leaving behind its faux pas past, nouveau riche had become a status symbol.
Choose carefully, because unscrupulous spending is a common plague among the tout nouveau riche.
Donald Trump is a man of his class — the nouveau-riche, country-club class.
It is the embodiment of nouveau riche: If you have the money, show it off.
"Diplomacy is the domain of the mature; not arrogant nouveau-riche," Zarif shot back on Wednesday.
He gave other businessmen expensive watches as presents and mingled in post-Soviet nouveau riche circles.
"I tried to be circumspect," she says of a nouveau riche broker of customized Chagall copies.
Contempt for the nouveau riche is hardly limited to China, but the Chinese version is distinctive.
From there, he bounced between schools, partied with celebrities, and lived the life of the nouveau riche.
Or Donald Trump, whose gilded '80s aesthetic has become synonymous with the bad taste of the nouveau riche.
Her decision now to admonish the area's nouveau riche might gain her new stripes as a polarizing figure.
It was rebellion that drew British up-and-comer, Matthew Miller, to create a collection inspired by the Nouveau Riche.
Vietnam's nouveau riche, who have begun to pay high prices for local artists, are a prime target for unscrupulous traders.
The diaosi audience on YY eventually attracts China's nouveau riche, who are looking to flaunt their wealth, Wu told me.
To him it was a ruling-class term and one that was attached to immigrants, arrivistes, to nouveau riche Jews. 11.
Created by the Indian designer Manish Malhotra, known for costume design in Bollywood films, the outfits drip with nouveau-riche taste.
Last year, two men, one Palestinian and one Israeli, opened Kanaan, a place for hipsters in the nouveau-riche Prenzlauer Berg area.
After a summer love affair, he rejects Brenda and the nouveau-riche Patimkins with the smug self-righteousness of Joyce's Stephen Dedalus.
His brand of uber-capitalist nouveau riche charlatanry feels tailored to a country that sees upward mobility as a sort of gospel.
Extreme wealth creation has spurred giving among the nouveau riche, which in turn has conflated philanthropy and inequality in the public's mind.
Regina and her brothers, Ben Hubbard (Michael McKean) and Oscar Hubbard (Darren Goldstein), are nouveau riche, but they'd like to be richer.
In the village, where no one can afford umbrellas or knows what they are, the nouveau riche put them to absurd uses.
It is a sharp comedy of manners about the nouveau riche of Delhi, refugees who are remaking themselves in a pitiless city.
A new stratum of Iranian nouveau riche emerged, flaunting Porsches and Maseratis on the streets of Tehran and buying mansions in Toronto and elsewhere.
Although the Reagans may have come to Washington as envoys from nouveau riche California, by the end they were pillars of manners and dignity.
Axe is a nouveau riche brawler from Yonkers, using hedge fund billions to bully his way to the status his name itself cannot afford.
Whatever its cultural significance, Crazy Rich Asians is most likely to win over audiences for the joyousness of its portrayal of Asia's nouveau riche.
I was looking specifically at how we view the nouveau riche; also, sometimes, the way we view celebrities who are famous just for being personalities.
Instead, her 13th-century Cotswold parish church had been caught in a trend sweeping nouveau-riche China: pre-wedding photo shoots in quintessential English locations.
LED lights are to gamers as Swarovski crystals are to the nouveau riche: irresistible pieces of bling that signify one's belonging to a certain group.
The same might be said of Miriam Buether's blindingly gold set (lighted to sear the eyes by Jane Cox), which blazes with nouveau riche vulgarity.
The club's clientele included Latin America's "nouveau riche" and the infamous Cocaine Cowboys, who announced their presence to the world in 1979's Dadeland Mall Massacre.
The surreal multimillion-dollar extravaganzas staged each season in Milan by Philipp Plein, the German king of nouveau riche bling, can make Wonderland look like a cornfield.
Redemption The problem with nouveau riche companies — especially in Silicon Valley — is their out-of-hand rejection of conventional models that have worked in the old economy.
"Portrait of the Jeweler Karl Krall" (1923) captures the campy arrogance of the nouveau riche in the middle aged, bespectacled jeweler's ostentatious pose and self-congratulatory air.
At the first Bayreuth Festival, in 1876, Nietzsche was crestfallen to discover that a viable theatre operation required the patronage of the nouveau riche and the fashionable.
These are certainly not "ordinary" people, though they represent an increasingly sizable segment of the Pyongyang populace, on a tier just below the elites: the nouveau riche.
If the WASP still saw the Jewish man as nouveau riche — even after so much Americanization — then surely there must have been a third party to blame.
She has enough faith that these nouveau riche want to spend their cryptocurrency earnings on luxury listings that she is forming a real estate company called Blockchain Homes.
He comes from more of a humble background, working class, so it's kind of that delineation between nouveau riche and working man that's also a layer within the film.
To understand the sticking power of Ivanka's persona, you must first understand the "富二代" or fuerdai (pronounced foo-are-die) — the spoiled children of the post-nouveau riche.
I've always assumed it mirrored that scene in Downton Abbey, when Cora's American mother swooped into town — nouveau-riche style — with an obnoxious list of dietary restrictions for the kitchen staff.
We were surrounded by royal-purple velvet furniture, endless mirrors, and swirling tentacular chandeliers—a decorative theme that I sensed has somehow become the coat of arms of China's nouveau riche.
Amid the lavish parties and romantic setbacks, the film highlights the clash of Western and Asian cultures and the tension between old-money Chinese families in Singapore and the nouveau riche.
At worst, she is the dybbuk of the upwardly mobile, the ever-haunting spirit of the Jewish nouveau riche as it tries to find its place in the American class system.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday that the "arrogant nouveau-riche" should stay out of diplomacy after the United Arab Emirates mocked his criticism of Saudi Arabia's human rights record.
What I never 2 + 2ed is that the clothing I was drawn to — the eccentric, the patterned, the peacockian — didn't attract me because of how nouveau riche, unique, and zany it was.
Prato is a city that had a big economic crisis, and now there's a nouveau-riche class of Chinese driving fancy cars, spending money in restaurants, and dressing in the latest fashions.
People laughed knowingly at the depiction of shrill Chinese mainlanders and their over-the-top, nouveau riche ways, and groaned at the familiar sight of overbearing parents meddling in their children's love life.
Her image in Hollywood at that point was closer to her character in Martin Scorsese's 2013 fraud romp The Wolf of Wall Street: a gold digger, a pinup adorned in nouveau riche trashiness.
A middle-aged man said to be part of China's nouveau riche circle has made local headlines after he was photographed shopping in Guangzhou while escorted by eight robots dressed like maids on Thursday.
"Country House", a song released by Blur in 1995, comes to mind, describing the leisured life of a modern-day nouveau-riche on his landed estate who is "reading Balzac and knocking back Prozac".
And her scene-stealing turn as Crazy Rich Asians's Peik Lin — the heroine's nouveau riche best friend and the only person in the movie who gets to say "fuck" — appeared to cement her destiny.
Der Spiegel also claimed that Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), two nouveau-riche clubs backed by sheikhs from the Gulf, had negotiated with administrators to receive only puny fines after breaking FFP rules.
If Crazy Rich Asians does, indeed, get a sequel, it will likely be based on Kwan's 2015 novel China Rich Girlfriend, which shifts away from Singapore's old guard elite and toward China's nouveau riche billionaires.
"The Custom of the Country," Edith Wharton Yes, I love "House of Mirth," but the character of Undine Spragg may be Wharton's greatest creation, a nouveau riche all-American girl for the new (20th) century.
The scenes of nouveau riche Jewish life at the club (where "boys can be boys" and "we pretend to be goys") are just as cliché-ridden, but at least these clichés are sparkly and engaging.
Many joked that the gold iPhone was targeted at the tuhao, a recent term that roughly translates as "tasteless nouveau riche" and that mockingly refers to the wealthy who feel the need to show off.
Picabia's chosen portrait (a recent MoMA acquisition) is a study in hipster prodigality: a roughly sutured photocollage in which Picabia, a wealthy French-Cuban, tears his own face and captions himself as a nouveau-riche failure.
Henry James, the American literary giant who relocated to Europe, wrote in his 1878 novel "The Europeans" about an encounter between dynamic, nouveau riche Americans and culturally wealthy, ossified Europeans, which leads to some amusing situations.
But Trump knows very well what it's like to be an outsider: He was mocked and rejected for decades by New York social elites when he tried to join their clubs with his nouveau riche ways.
This is when Undine, whose agency caters to "the vanity and confusion of the African-American nouveau riche," discovers, while trying to book a celebrity for the Fallopian Blockage ball, that her Argentine husband, Hervé, has decamped.
His bid was cast as a tale "of nouveau riche liberal ambition, real-estate excess and carpetbaggery run amok," Michael Barbaro wrote in The Times, and, shockingly, he never captured the hearts of the region's dairy farmers.
It's striking, to those who care to look, just how much his agenda is about class interest: He opposes extended maternity leave, raising the minimum wage and reducing the retirement age — anything that inconveniences his nouveau riche confederates.
In the nineteenth century, it was an entertainment for the nouveau riche, while the lingua franca of its steps—they're essentially the same no matter where you go in the world—aspired to the universal ideals of Enlightenment philosophes.
Two are in TriBeCa: the Ludlow Shop, which focuses on suiting, and the Liquor Store, which when it opened in 2008 felt radical for its reconstruction of the men's shopping space into something more folksy yet still nouveau riche.
And while founders of popular consumer technology companies like Pinterest and Uber also now rank among tech's nouveau riche, it's the business software world that's seeing a steady stream of newly-minted billionaires, a trend that appears poised to continue.
Into the breach galloped J. Stuart Blackton, a nouveau riche film pioneer, who bought Herbert's colonnaded mansion at 23.65 Clinton as a Christmas gift for his wife, Paula, for whom he also bought George's Waverly garage as a stocking stuffer.
Donald Trump and his colorful, brash kin are the nouveau riche embodiment of a new political age when 12 million Twitter followers and outrageous fame are as important as the traditional political network that the Clintons have built for a generation.
The Netflix-aired anime is the brainchild of Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig and stars Jaden Smith, Jude Law, and Susan Sarandon in its tale about a nouveau riche demon hunter who is fond of melodramatic monologues about sadness and fashion.
In the seventies, Venezuelans would take the Concorde to Paris just to take a shower, or to New York to dance at Studio 54, and the nomenklatura of those days has simply been replaced by the nouveau-riche chavistas of today.
When she writes about the working classes or the nouveau riche, it is almost always with a faint sense of distaste for their poor taste, and rarely with an eye toward the systemic inequalities that separates her world from theirs.
But more often, that same aggression and lust for power and credibility makes him seem gauche, a nouveau riche sleaze who may know how to work the angles on Wall Street, but who doesn't speak the language of high society.
The icing on the extremely expensive cake— the jacket apparently cost $11,000 and was made by some nouveau riche boarding school dropout who seems to think wearing an Operation Ivy shirt means he understands the struggle—is located on the back.
That includes not just the old-money trappings that the Youngs embody, but also Rachel's irrepressible college friend Peik Lin (Awkwafina, having a moment after her "Ocean's 8" role) and her nouveau-riche family, offering Ken Jeong a chance to join the festivities.
"You have a nouveau riche person who has decided to change Boothbay Harbor from a cozy, treasured spot to a destination point for the rich and wealthy," said Sumner H. Lipman, a lawyer who represents several clients with whom Mr. Coulombe has tangled.
Even as Chinese cities have turned into playgrounds for the nouveau riche and the swelling ranks of the middle class, nearly 2003 million people, or about 40 percent of China's population, live on less than $5.50 per day, according to the World Bank.
The country's nouveau riche evolved out of a 2002 government decree that opened the door for citizens to trade goods and operate businesses, according to Michael Madden, a visiting scholar at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Ironically, these larger multi-family units at the bottom of the hill, with their complicated floor plans and layouts, are considerably more expensive in the modern real estate market, as they're renovated into massive open concept houses for Pittsburgh's tech worker nouveau riche.
And so there's that sort of an old money/new money dynamic that I think, for example, with media versus tech, the East Coast/West Coast war, there's always the sense where old money will want to label the new money as nouveau riche.
There are two types of patron: the rich tuhao ("nouveau riche") who spend thousands of dollars to befriend livestreamers and show off their wealth, and the poor diaosi ("losers", a self-deprecating term used by lower-class youth) who aspire to live vicariously through their heroes.
I hear the loudest voice at the country club: at Mar-a-Lago, or in Bedminster, N.J., or any other club where the nouveau riche gather, many of whom — thanks to the uninterrupted bounty of economic policies in America going back to Ronald Reagan — are now plutocrats.
The second comes with the fall of communism and the U.S.-encouraged "shock therapy" under Boris Yeltsin: seven years of "Wild West" capitalism characterized by elderly pensioners begging in the streets, lurid contract killings of the nouveau riche, and a dramatic society-wide decline in living standards.
Their jet-setting life, anchored at Albemarle, their 403,500-square-foot, 45-room Charlottesville, Va., estate, was one of several breathlessly chronicled in society pages during that giddy, nouveau-riche decade, along with that of Saul and Gayfryd Steinberg, Malcolm Forbes and, yes, Donald J. Trump.
I instantly became his closest friend, as he rattled off the stories behind his favorite pieces: how they came into the possession of The Family, their historic significance, and why these paintings were superior to the overpriced trash fished out of the nouveau riche shitstream that was Art Basel.
On the surface, the announcement on November 18th that DraftKings and FanDuel, the two largest players in daily fantasy sports (DFS)—the fastest-growing segment of the market—would join forces in a "merger of equals" would appear to be a case of the industry's nouveau riche getting much, much richer.
After three decades of blistering economic growth, China has created a class of nouveau riche, many of whom want to move their families abroad, attracted by places with cleaner air and fewer food safety issues than back home, as well as the prospects of a Western education for their children.
"Some people, including me, pointed out that it looks like we were going to raise tens of millions of dollars from bitcoin nouveau riche and that we might want to talk to some lawyers—that we should be concerned that we might be selling an unregistered security to Americans," Lubin said.
It will be crowded and glorious, and you'll meet just about every type of Austinite— the vaguely fratty college kids adventuring away from "Dirty Sixth," the aging squares and old Austin hippies, the young kids in hipsterish threads, the annoyingly fashionable nouveau riche from the tech sector, some colorful weirdos.
As a teenager in the early 1970s, in a tent after running away from his nouveau riche home in New Jersey to escape his father's violent, homophobic rage, and after consuming what sounds like a half a gram of LSD, Rush stayed on the mountaintop for almost two years, alone.
While the presence of a rising upper middle class is most apparent in Pyongyang, a nouveau riche strata has been observed in other parts of the country, such as the port city of Chongjin and in many places along the border with China, where licit and illicit trade continues to flourish.
In another world — or really, in this outfit — we pretend Rihanna is not just one of the greatest quadruple threats of all time, but also a renowned poet, novelist, and playwright who meditates often and lives in seclusion after a life of piracy on the high seas, or something nouveau riche like that.
In the late '60s and early '70s, as independent films were diversifying their outlook and shaking off the formulas of Hollywood storytelling, Broadway boulevard comedies like "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" and "California Suite" — tales of the befuddled nouveau riche in a new world — began to look mass-produced and middlebrow.
The rapper discusses the Chinese nouveau-riche over the beat for Travie McCoy and Bruno Mars's "Billionaire," flips Eminem and Rihanna's "Love the Way You Lie" into a critique of China's over-reliance upon investments for its economic growth, and rewrites Jay Z's "Young Forever" explains the issues facing young people in contemporary China.
" The house itself "screams Suburban Nouveau Riche, the kind of place I aspired to as a kid from my split-level, shag-carpet side of town" — Nick grew up in the town — and is the kind of house they both hate: "generically grand, unchallenging, new, new, new house that my wife would — and did — detest.
On the other half of this week's Popcast, Mr. Caramanica spoke to the New York Times reporters Joe Coscarelli, Melena Ryzik and Ben Sisario about their recent expose on the Fyre Festival, an ambitious undertaking that was supposed to bring a nouveau riche, Instagram-friendly festival to the Bahamas last month but ended in calamity.
Robert Gardiner, an old money blueblood to whom virtually everyone across the water in the Hamptons was nouveau riche, had anointed himself the "16th Lord of the Manor" of Gardiners Island, which his ancestors had bought from the Mantaukett Indians in 1639 for a large dog, a gun, some ammunition, rum and a handful of blankets.
Jane Prescott, a smart and sensible lady's maid in service to the nouveau riche Benchley family, has a front-row seat for the mischief that ensues when pretty, vapid Charlotte Benchley rises above her station and becomes romantically entwined with a rich nitwit ne'er-do-well, Robert Norris Newsome Jr. When Norrie is murdered on the night their engagement is to be announced, Charlotte becomes a suspect and only Jane seems inclined to clear the silly girl's good name.

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