mauve decade

American  

noun

1. the 1890s, considered as a social and cultural period characterized by prosperity and complacency.

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Example Sentences

Little but his friend Arthur Symons' brief, exquisite biographical essay had preserved the memory of the Mauve Decade's most desperately romantic life.

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The San Francisco Suite consisted of four descriptive movements�"Gold Rush," "Bohemian Nights," "Mauve Decade" and "1906-1960"�all of them as clich�-ridden as any Mirror Sunday feature.

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But that mauve decade had died long ago, long before its ten years were up.

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With her husband, a well-known Beau Brummel of the Mauve Decade, she fled the U. S. in 1912 because the advent of the automobile made Manhattan "impossible."

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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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