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

In Dark Carnivals: Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire, historian W. Scott Poole uses two potent symbols from 1970s cinema to explore how America conceives of threats to its idealized, aspirational image: the shark and the chain saw.

From Slate

By the time the Emperor Napoleon disappeared into exile, France, stripped of many of its overseas colonies, had been reduced to secondary status in Europe, while its erstwhile ally, Spain, was so weakened that it would soon lose its Latin American empire.

From Salon

Arcand’s films had been nominated twice before in the category, for 1986’s “The Decline of the American Empire” and 1989’s “Jesus of Montreal.”

From Los Angeles Times

Gutierrez, whose ancestors came to Southern California in the 1840s, grew up with stories of Californio bravery in the face of American empire.

From Los Angeles Times

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