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fin_de_siècle

fin de siècle

See also: fin-de-siecle

English

Adjective

fin de siècle ‎(not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the close of the 19th century, usually suggesting the literary and artistic climate of modernism, world-weariness, and self-indulgence.

Etymology

Borrowing from French fin de siècle ‎(literally “end of the century”).

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