|faⁿdəs|yekl( ə ), -sē|ek-, -k(lə) adjective
Etymology: French fin de siècle end of the century
1.
a. : of or relating to the close of the 19th century
recreated in its fin-de-siècle splendor on a sound stage in London — T.F.Brady
b. : of, relating to, characterized by, or resembling in one or another respect the late 19th century literary and artistic climate of sophistication, escapism, extreme aestheticism, world-weariness, and fashionable despair : decadent 2a
this attitude grew into a fin-de-siècle one of cultivated fatigue and bored aestheticism — Peter De Vries
queer that in 1917 a man of 29 should be writing in so adolescent and fin-de-siècle a manner — Jacob Isaacs
early dabblings in the mood of the fin-de-siècle aesthetes — R.D.Jacobs
2. : of or relating to the end of an era