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noun
A 19th-century genre of English literature that depicted the lives of the upper class and the aristocracy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: fashionable novel
Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined by English essayist and writer William Hazlitt in 1827.
