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Steamboat Gothic

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noun
a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
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Origin of Steamboat Gothic

First recorded in 1940–45
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How to use Steamboat Gothic in a sentence

  • Though outwardly the Secretary General's mansion was hyper-gingerbread steamboat Gothic, inwardly it was entirely modern in plan.

    The Ambassador|Samuel Kimball Merwin
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