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Fittingly, Middle of Nowhere has an in-between feeling, like a meal at a nouveau farm-to-table restaurant, said Grant Sharples in Paste.—The Week Us, TheWeek, 13 May 2026 None of it looks pristine, like some nouveau tailoring house where everything is just so, but lived in and imperfect.—Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 24 Mar. 2026 Crockett’s nouveau approach to campaigning caught up with her.—Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Mar. 2026 The nouveau American fashion conglomerate was poised to rival European competitors like Louis Vuitton and Hermes owner LVMH and Gucci owner Kering—with soaring revenues to boot.—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for nouveau
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Etymology
borrowed from French, "new," going back to Middle French (back-formation from the plural nouveaulx, nouveaux), going back to Old French novel, going back to Latin novellus "young, tender (of plants or animals)," from novus "new" + -ellus, diminutive suffix — more at new entry 1