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midcult

[mid-kuhlt]

noun

  1. (sometimes initial capital letter),  the intellectual culture intermediate between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow culture.



adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of such culture.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of midcult1

1955–60, mid(dle-brow) cult(ure) ; masscult
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Example Sentences

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Sometimes called midcult, it would get you blithely ignored.

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Playing with midcult is playing with artistic fire.

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In the late 1990s she grabbed midcult by the lapels.

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A producer who bucked Hollywood trends and made ambitious, offbeat midcult films into a major market by bullying and media favor-swapping?

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Among the most famous of these came from Dwight Macdonald in a long Partisan Review essay from 1960 called “Masscult and Midcult.”

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