nouveau pauvre
nouveau pauvre · nouveaux pauvres
A newly impoverished personA newly impoverished person; somebody who has recently become poor.
Meaning
1 sensesA newly impoverished person; somebody who has recently become poor.
Origin
Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau pauvre (“new poor”), modeled on nouveau riche (“neUnadapted borrowing from French nouveau pauvre (“new poor”), modeled on nouveau riche (“new money”).
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Forms
plural: nouveaux pauvres| Singular | nouveau pauvre |
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irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.