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nouveau pauvre

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English

Syllables
nou-veau -pau-vre
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A newly impoverished person; somebody who has recently become poor.

adj

Similar to or having the qualities of a nouveau pauvre.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau pauvre (“new poor”), modeled on nouveau riche (“new money”).

Inflected Forms

nouveaux pauvres (plural)

Antonyms

nouveau riche

Questions

What does nouveau pauvre mean?
A newly impoverished person; somebody who has recently become poor.
Where does nouveau pauvre come from?
Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau pauvre (“new poor”), modeled on nouveau riche (“new money”).

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