"How does it feel to be nouveau riche?" he was asked on one occasion.†
(source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994
It's a rented house right along the Mississippi River, a house that screams Suburban Nouveau Riche, the kind of place I aspired to as a kid from my split-level, shag-carpet side of town.†
(source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012
Ostentation by the nouveau riche is never appealing.†
(source) Margaret Peterson Haddix, Uprising, 2007
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) Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits, 1986
She wondered whether he was an ostentatious nouveau riche.†
(source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, 2009
He had spent the go-go eighties hanging out with nouveau riche celebrities.†
(source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, 2009
It was the heyday of the nouveau riche, and a life of careless extravagance among the masters.†
(source) W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903