Gay Nineties

plural noun

1. the 1890s in the United States, a period regarded nostalgically as a decade of prosperous comfort and associated with gaslights, early bicycles and cars, and the Gibson girl.

Example Sentences

As a teenager, she followed her married sister to Washington and embraced the cultural and social life of the booming Gay Nineties city.

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He popularized ragtime, an early form of American music combining classical European harmonies with syncopated African rhythms, in the late 1800s with his hit, “Maple Leaf Rag” — the sheet music sold half a million copies, and the song became a soundtrack to the Gay Nineties.

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Bill’s New York City The restaurateur Curt Huegel has had his eye on the venerable Bill’s Gay Nineties for many years.

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Yunnies are, by his account, the silent accomplices of hyper-gentrification: de-cultured millennials who actively like to shop at Target and could not care less if a quirky shrine like Bill’s Gay Nineties, which is the tavern where Tallulah Bankhead used to drink and which closed three years ago, is turned into a garish, high-end restaurant.

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It’s too polite, more Gay Nineties ice cream parlor than Second Empire Parisian cafe.

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