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Art Nouveau

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Noun

1. art nouveau

a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Art Nouveau

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noun
a. 
a style of art and architecture of the 1890s, characterized by swelling sinuous outlines and stylized natural forms, such as flowers and leaves
b. 
(as modifier)
an Art-Nouveau mirror

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Art Nouveau

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[also A- N-]
a movement in arts and crafts of the late 19th and early 20th cent., characterized by curvilinear designs styled from nature

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Art Nouveau

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n.
A style of decoration and architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, characterized particularly by the depiction of leaves and flowers in flowing, sinuous lines.

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