nouveau riche

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CIDE DICTIONARY

nouveau richem. [F.].
     A person newly rich. Contrasted with old money.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nouveau riche, n. (pl. nouveaux riches pronunc. same) a person who has recently acquired (usu. ostentatious) wealth.

Etymology
F, = new rich

THESAURUS

nouveau riche

Babbitt, Philistine, Young Turk, adventurer, arriviste, boor, bounder, bourgeois, bourgeois gentilhomme, bright young man, cad, churl, clown, comer, epicier, fledgling, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, looby, lout, low fellow, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, mucker, mushroom, name-dropper, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new generation, new man, newly-rich, nouveau roturier, novus homo, parvenu, peasant, pig in clover, ribald, rising generation, roturier, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, social climber, sprout, status seeker, stripling, tufthunter, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, would-be gentleman, yokel

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