Noun, : the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.    From Dictionary.com. 

The Romans were pragmatic, a people of relaxed power with nouveau-riche lapses of taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Autobiography]

Roman Punch is so thoroughly forgotten now that the nouveau-riche taint no longer applies.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Icy Treat for Adults Only] Reference

We can't take much more of it, even if we are a bunch of uptight right-wing nouveau-riche snobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [May 2005] Reference

Real Housewives of Orange County is meant only to serve as illustration of nouveau-riche pretension.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Brie Factor] Reference

It was the human side of a nouveau-riche snob and it would have amused Fox if he had any liking for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox Evil]

To a foreigner it's easy to scoff at such extravagance, to chalk it up to nouveau-riche impulses given free rein.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Big Fat Indian Wedding] Reference

A naco is usually associated with lower socio-economic classes, but could also sometimes include the nouveau-riche.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Trailer trash"] Reference

In this appropriately nouveau-riche setting, about 50 Chinese millionaires met the worlds second and third richest men to talk philanthropy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gates, Buffett Discuss Philanthropy With Chinese] Reference

She had seemed, suddenly, to become psychotic, to collapse completely under the weight of her aristocratic resentment of her nouveau-riche husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfishers]

Bringing Back Those 1980s John and Susan Gutfreund were the likely inspiration for a nouveau-riche couple in the 1980s-excess novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities.".    From Wordnik.com.  [One Bluff Too Many] Reference

It's The Journal of Interstellar Research, and you know how stuffy they are -- they're nouveau-riche in terms of prestige, and that makes them more academic than the academicians.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case Of Conscience]

The sentence appears in a passage describing the "Four Mile Circus," an absurd traveling circus under the tutelage of 'Fourmyle of Ceres' (Gulliver Foyle disguised as a nouveau-riche fool).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Annotated "The Music Never Stopped"] Reference

In the best nouveau-riche style, they built a gaudy mansion — now part of a state park — that cost a quarter-million dollars, and they filled it with the spoils of a European collecting tour.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Silver Bonanza in Boomtown Days] Reference

What strutting, nouveau-riche captain of industry had taken it upon himself to make the nearby spreads of Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman, investor Ronald Lauder, Calvin Klein, and others look modest by comparison?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sand Simeon] Reference

Sarkozy is a nouveau-riche and loves to parade his ego.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Tiger paws are served at nouveau-riche Chinese banquets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ottawa Sun] Reference

First, it lives up to its nouveau-riche Gilded Age heritage-much as faux McKim.    From Wordnik.com.  [the latest from teenvogue.com] Reference

"People are no longer trying to one-up each other in fanciness like the nouveau-riche," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [CANOE Money] Reference

Phony, because the idea of a fake lake is a nouveau-riche knockoff of the genuine article, Muskoka.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Blogs Feed] Reference

She was the daughter of a thrice-married, nouveau-riche building merchant from Surrey, who died when she was 16.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

That is the situation America faces today and maybe Australia, too with its endless, nouveau-riche, highly mortgaged suburbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference

Architects who once flaunted their radical credentials now work almost exclusively for giant corporations and nouveau-riche clients.    From Wordnik.com.  [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference

Later, the working class moved into Sellur on the other side of the river, and much later the nouveau-riche into Anna Nagar and KK Nagar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

These days, Sihanoukville's luxury resorts have plenty of attitude, having been rediscovered by growing numbers of nouveau-riche Cambodians and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

It was he who called the nouveau-riche women of Boca the "Bocahontases" in his popular Sun-Sentinel column while he was still living in West Palm Beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Here refugees from small-town bourgeois and urban nouveau-riche philistines alike could befriend each other and practice the evanescent art of conversation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Two years ago the nouveau-riche at Loftus Road were being tipped to streak out of the division leaving a trail of diamond ear-studs and Ferrari hubcabs in their wake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Who let's remember cost the nouveau-riche west Londoners £16.2m a couple of years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Remember, the driving force behind the final battle in “Caddyshack” was Rodney Dangerfield’s nouveau-riche club member.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Ghost Busters As Rightwing Agitprop] Reference

So you’re saying that Pawlenty’s complaint is that liberals are nouveau-riche and tacky in their choice of pseudo-luxuries?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Brie Factor] Reference

The pictures clearly showed shallow nouveau-riche English soc­iety at its worst which may, or may not have been Tissot’s intention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biblical Stories in Art: James Tissot] Reference

As the veteran and his buddy fly over a pool-festooned suburban wasteland, they’re at a loss for which gaudy nouveau-riche house to invade.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Year of Flops] Reference

Today I was viewing a slideshow from the June issue of Monocle, where they presented homes of Afghanistan’s nouveau-riche many are druglords, and I saw this house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jessica Helgerson Remodelling a Modern Ranch] Reference

This is not just nouveau-riche retail therapy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference