1
: of or relating to nouvelle cuisine
a nouvelle restaurant
2

Examples of nouvelle in a Sentence

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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

Word History

Etymology

after nouvelle cuisine

First Known Use

1650, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Time Traveler
The first known use of nouvelle was in 1650

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“Nouvelle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nouvelle. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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