Phrase guide
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adj
Pertaining to the close of the 19th century, usually suggesting a literary and artistic climate of modernism, world-weariness, and self-indulgence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Pertaining to the close of the 20th (or any other) century.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, not-comparable
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noun
The closing era of any century; (loosely) the end of any era.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Borrowed from French fin-de-siècle (literally “end of the century”).
Across languages
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