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- noun See
secle .
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Examples
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'Anacreon au XVIe siecle,' in his _Tableau de la Poesie francaise au XVIe siecle_ (1893), pp. 432-47.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Mary's tastes were too popular; some of the uglier devils said they were too low; many ladies and gentlemen of the "siecle" thought them disreputable, though they dared not say so, or dared say so only by proxy, as in "Aucassins."
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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The literature of the "siecle" was always unreligious, from the
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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Written by an acclaimed expert on Vienna and its history, The Empty Mirrorintroduces a new series of stunning historical mysteries that reveals the culture and curiosities of this fascinating fin de siecle metropolis.
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR JANUARY 17TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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My friend Otto Schmidt runs a game that is (from the material perspective) executed with paper dolls and a representation of fin de siecle Vienna (Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna).
Pirates, Flattery and Disappointment in Lilliput!! « Third Point of Singularity 2010
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Back in fin de siecle Paris, UK Garage was the big new thing.
Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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��The decor is fin de siecle, the atmosphere convivial.
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In a historical book, Gallipolis, Histoire d'un mirage americain au XVIII siecle ..
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“Hysteria during the European fin de siecle came to mean so many different things that by around 1900 it ceased to mean anything at all,” Mark Micale writes in his authoritative book Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations.
Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010
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��The decor is fin de siecle, the atmosphere convivial.
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