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nou·veau

, n

-v

) KEY

ADJECTIVE:

New and different, often fashionably so: "The perfect [Los Angeles] combination: a gas station that is also a nouveau convenience store" (David Mermelstein).

ETYMOLOGY:
From phrases such as art nouveau

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