nouvelle

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Recent Examples of nouvelle Cuisine here is often tapas style, but portions are hardly nouvelle. Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2021 For one, the cooking trends of nouvelle and molecular gastronomy are, well, no longer trendy. Josie Sexton, The Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2019 Lameloise’s food was traditional Burgundian haute cuisine updated with nouvelle touches. Adam Shatz, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019 There’s nothing ordinary about a meal at Jeune et Jolie, the chic and charming nouvelle French restaurant in Carlsbad that’s on everyone’s short list for best new restaurant of the year. Michele Parente, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2019 Nous sommes avec le peuple américain, une nouvelle fois endeuillé. Alex Ward, Vox, 27 Oct. 2018 This trendy bar still believes in the nouvelle style of molecular pizzazz. Seth Shezi, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Sep. 2018 Ella Brennan, who was credited with creating nouvelle Creole cuisine at her Commander’s Palace restaurant and was the matriarch of a New Orleans family that owns more than a dozen restaurants, died May 31 at her home in New Orleans. Washington Post, 2 June 2018 La France paye une nouvelle fois le prix du sang mais ne cède pas un pouce aux ennemis de la liberté (2/2). Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 13 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nouvelle
Adjective
  • These modern, design-forward homes have shared amenities like a sauna, a cold plunge, a putting green, and a basketball court.
    Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2025
  • Even with higher on-average incomes, gay parents face the same challenges of the modern economy as straight ones — from student loan repayments to a carton of eggs.
    Sam Raus, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
Adjective
  • Shop the best markdowns of fashionable favorites such as Favorite Daughter best-selling trouser, Rag & Bone’s capri pants and By Malene Birger’s knitted skirt.
    Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 11 July 2025
  • In the snap, the mother-of-two looked as fashionable as ever, this time styling the supportive shoes with a navy linen mini dress and gold jewelry.
    Averi Baudler, People.com, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • In contrast to Scribner’s modish black exterior, the library is cast in blond wood with leather and wood seating and plenty of plush spots to curl up with complimentary coffee around a central fireplace.
    John Oseid, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • And a modish whiskey lounge tucked away upstairs.
    Anna Spiegel, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite starting off with a short story set in 1963, this is a contemporary meditation on the discovery of self, memory and kinship by an emerging voice in Kenyan fiction.
    Wanjeri Gakuru July 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
  • Furthermore, they were found to have no trace of cadmium, mercury, or arsenic, all contemporary treatments for syphilis.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • Rei Kawakubo and Adrian Joffe, who broke the mold with their Dover Street Market emporiums mixing various Comme des Garçons brands with the crème de la crème of luxury and streetwear, are disrupting retail again with a newfangled take on private-label merchandise.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 25 June 2025
  • Gianni Infantino’s grand experiment has now fully gotten underway, with all 32 teams having played their opening matches in this newfangled Club World Cup.
    Jeff Rueter, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • However, there is an increasingly impressive array of stylish spots that might tempt you to stay off the beachfront, like the brand-new collection of 10 villas at Trobbu Tulum, offering a luxe private experience and even the option of all-inclusive dining.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2025
  • The home's exterior boasts a sleek modern wall fountain at the front entrance, hinting at the stylish design found throughout.
    Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • The mayor has yet to internalize how much City Hall’s elaborate bait-and-switch on voters in winning approval of much-higher-than-promised new trash fees on 226,000-plus single-family homes has damaged his reputation.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
  • The veteran outfielder has been trying to adjust to a new role as a platoon DH this season.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • The apartment’s original wall plaster is preserved, and their light salmon hue harmonizes beautifully with the ultramodern, somewhat stark white and steel furnishings.
    Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 23 June 2025
  • The same is true in some ultramodern nations that are changing under the pressures of globalization, such as South Korea and even constitutionally secular Turkey.
    Andrew Preston, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2012

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“Nouvelle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nouvelle. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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