# nouveau pauvre

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A newly impoverished person; somebody who has recently become poor.

## Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau pauvre (“new poor”), modeled on nouveau riche (“new money”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/nouveau-pauvre