Nouveau riche
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007007131
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2007007131#concept
Variants
- New-moneyed people
- New-monied people
- New rich people
- Newly rich people
- Nouveaux riches
Broader Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Work cat.: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American newly rich, 1976.
- found: The inexhaustible variety of life : satire of the nouveau riche in Petronius' Satyricon, Moliere's Le bourgeois gentilhomme and Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby, 1996.
- found: Dress codes: meanings and messages in American culture, 1995:p. 302 (newly rich are more likely to engage in what Veblen called conspicuous consumption)
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Change Notes
- 2007-08-29: new
- 2008-05-20: revised
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