Gilded Age

noun

1. the period in the U.S. c1870–98, characterized by a greatly expanding economy and the emergence of plutocratic influences in government and society.

Example Sentences

Yuen Yuen Ang is a political scientist at the University of Michigan, and the author of China’s Gilded Age.

From Freakonomics

The Progressive Era marked the end of America’s Gilded Age — its first Gilded Age, that is.

From Freakonomics

Or were we better off with J.P. Morgan and the industrialists of the Gilded Age?

From The Daily Beast

But the irony of this gilded age is that the reigns of imperial CEOs can be quite short.

From The Daily Beast

The Gilded Age was marked by the widespread smuggling of silk dresses and other consumer wants.

From The Daily Beast

We are now in the wake of another Gilded Age, and the divide between capital and labor has rarely been clearer.

From The Daily Beast

Justice Clarence Thomas, in particular, has a well-known affinity for the values of the Gilded Age.

From The Daily Beast

The Gilded Age had been issued a day or two before Christmas, and was already in its third edition.

From Project Gutenberg

There was another co-worker on The Gilded Age before the book was finally completed.

From Project Gutenberg

He spent the next two or three days preparing himself for a part in "The Gilded Age."

From Project Gutenberg

Was it not one that exposed him, in a peculiar sense, to the contagion of the Gilded Age?

From Project Gutenberg

The integrity of the spirit had become as indifferent to him as it was to the Gilded Age itself.

From Project Gutenberg