nouvelle
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of nouvelle
Extracted from nouvelle cuisine
Example Sentences
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It’s the moment when old-school French — think white tablecloths, heavy sauces and snooty maitre’d’s — faded into the background, allowing nouvelle cuisine and what we now call New American to take its place.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
Its obsessive characters, abrupt transitions, abstract narrative and hyper-naturalistic attention to detail also recall the French nouvelle romans of Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2023
He’s not one to complain in restaurants — imagine the despair it would cause — but Pépin is no fan of “punctuation cooking,” nouvelle cuisine run amok with squeeze-bottle calligraphy.
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2022
The film was based on an idea by François Truffaut, another icon of the nouvelle vague, and began shooting in Paris without a script.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2021
He kept all the Jewish deli and soda fountain touches and then added nouvelle Chinese to the menu.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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