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nouveau riche
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  • She replied that such wastefulness was certainly a mortal sin and that God would punish all of them for spending on nouveau riche vulgarities what they should be giving to the poor.†  (source)
  • She wondered whether he was an ostentatious nouveau riche.†  (source)
  • However, a number of my oil paintings and water colors were now hanging in some of the finest, and by no means nouveau riche, homes in Paris, where they had gagne considerable attention from some of the most formidable critics of our day.†  (source)
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  • It was the heyday of the nouveau riche, and a life of careless extravagance among the masters.†  (source)
  • He had spent the go-go eighties hanging out with nouveau riche celebrities.†  (source)
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