American Empire

American  

noun

1. a style of American furniture making and related crafts from c1815 to c1840, corresponding to the French Empire and late English Regency styles.

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Example Sentences

I mean, honestly, where else in mainstream publishing would Steve Fraser and I have been able to spend years producing a line-up of books in a series we called, graphically enough, The American Empire Project?

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2022

The list led Ruppert to publish his first book, 2004’s Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil.

From The Verge • Jul. 22, 2014

And he found a mahogany-and-chintz American Empire sofa at a store in Bridgehampton, N.Y., pickled the wood and used a teal-and-bronze fabric from Lee Jofa.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2013

After the formation of Kaos Studios, Votypka wrote a treatment called The Fall of the American Empire, set in an occupied US, but with a very different narrative to Homefront.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2011

Behind him are the resources, productive machinery and surplus of the American Empire.

From The American Empire by Nearing, Scott