Etymology

nouveau

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Today it means: New, fashionable. Full definition →

French nouveau
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  1. French · borrowed fromnouveau
  2. English todaynouveau

Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau. Recognized as English in 1828. Doublet of novel.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.