FIN-DE-SIÈCLE


Meaning of FIN-DE-SIÈCLE in English

|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

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.