Etymology

nouvelle vague

Today it means: An influential French film movement of the 1950s and 1960s which experimented radically in editing, visual style and narrative Full definition →

French nouvelle vague
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  1. French · borrowed fromnouvelle vague
  2. English todaynouvelle vague

Unadapted borrowing from French nouvelle vague (literally “new wave”).

Words from the same roots

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new wave

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.