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A Random Word From the ArchivesWant another word? Refresh this pagePermanent link for this word: fin de siecle A.Word.A.Day--fin de siecle
fin de siecle or fin-de-siecle (fahn duh see-EH-kluh) adjective: Of or pertaining to the end of a century, especially the nineteenth century, and its climate of sophisticated world-weariness, self-doubt, etc. [From French, literally, the end of the century.]
"[Katherine Clark] uses motifs from Chinese porcelain and from the
drawings of Aubrey Beardsley, who made the peacock the height of fin de
siecle fashion a century ago."
"In these fin-de-siecle circumstances, it is perhaps surprising there is
not more sign of millenarian panic." This week's theme: Words related to calendar
X-BonusTo be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style. -Aldous Huxley, writer (1894-1963) |
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