| LC control no. | sh2007007131 |
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| Topical heading | Nouveau riche |
| Variant(s) | New-moneyed people New-monied people New rich people Newly rich people Nouveaux riches |
| See also | Rich people |
| Found in | Work cat.: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American newly rich, 1976. 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. 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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