nouveaux riche

A blacksmith's shop; horseriding was very much a status symbol with the nouveaux riche.

Gobindapur culture was the European nouveaux riche culture.

This is a disposable nouveaux riche society and to a great extent the characters have brought about their own downfall with their chicanery and guile.

The song makes late 1970s cultural references to such nouveaux riche fads as Elaine's Restaurant and Halston.

She recalls how Mr Graham's soirees were attended by the great and the good - the aristocracy, the nouveaux riche, industrialists, newspaper barons, editors, actors, directors, and so forth.

To their detractors, the Sarkozys are more like Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his clan: showy, vulgar, acquisitive, more nouveaux riche than old money.

In the summer of 1979, Rick Lazaroff joined up with Rick and Mark Santers to form "Nouveaux Riche" which later became Santers, also known as Rick Santers Band.

Two other cast members are Jennifer Taub and Jaxon Duff Gwillim, who are married in real life, and who portray the wedded Shelley and Sheldon Schlumpmeister, a couple of nouveaux riche loudmouths.

Raffles, fireworks and gimmicks such as bungee jumping have helped to lure more than a million visitors - many of them nouveaux riche from the former Soviet Union - to stores and markets that peddle electronic products, jewelry and other goods at tax-free bargain prices.

Some tenants dismissed her as nouveaux riche, saying that her over-the-top appearance was at odds with the shabby-chic ethos that has attracted not only solid middle-class tenants but also celebrated figures like Nora Ephron and Cyndi Lauper to the building.

Principalias or town castles, in the Hispanization of Baliwag, became the home of the rich and famous, who sported the titles of Don or Capitan (shrewd, hard-bargaining businessman, the highly successful professionals and even the parvenus, nouveaux riche).