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

Tom Engelhardt is a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of a history of the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2018

Tom Engelhardt is a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The United States of Fear as well as a history of the cold war titled The End of Victory Culture.

From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2016

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 much fighting, Don Fernando Cortes had, by force of arms and with many brilliant deeds, captured the Great City of Mexico, Capital of the Northern American Empire.

From History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Means, Philip Ainsworth