mauve decade
Americannoun
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But that mauve decade had died long ago, long before its ten years were up.
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The shades of Europe's mauve decade had become old-fashioned memories; Huneker's men of the hour were but ghosts.
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Craig Biddle, 68, gay blade of the mauve decade, socialite, sportsman; of a heart ailment; in Wakefield, R.I.
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British literary critics of the mauve decade were mildly amused by a gifted young man who called his very first book The Works of Max Beerbohm.
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