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‖ fin de siècle|fɛ̃ də sjɛkl|
[Fr.]
A phrase used as an adj. in sense: Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the end of the (nineteenth) century; characteristically advanced, modern, or decadent. Hence fin-de-siècl(e)ism, the state or quality of being characteristically fin de siècle.
1890Daily News 29 Dec. 2/2 The finance of the year has been special—fin de siècle. 1891Melbourne Punch 4 June 377/1 The fin de siècle ballet. 1893[see Argonaut 1 b]. 1896W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's Syst. 523 What is called Fin-de-Siècle-ism. 1898Westm. Gaz. 4 July 1/2 These days, which pessimists call fin-de-siècle with some sort of idea that the phrase indicates a weariness and weakening of purpose. 1908Daily Chron. 22 Apr. 4/6 He has recreated for us the Versailles of Louis XIV. in that fin-de-siècle epoch when the glories of the Grand Monarque were fading. 1930Punch 30 Apr. 498 This charming old comedy can be trusted to delight us on its own merits. Fin-de-siècle trimmings are alien to its spirit. 1948H. Acton Mem. Aesthete vi. 119, I had started sweeping away fin-de-siècle cobwebs with a paper called The Oxford Broom. 1965Listener 25 Nov. 863/1 He..ignores the aspects of Proust that do not interest him personally; the realist, the chronicler of fin de siècle society, and the student of inversion are hardly mentioned. 1966New Statesman 27 May 786/1 [The description] conveys none of his fin-de-sièclism. 1967R. Croft-Cooke Feasting with Panthers viii. 166 Even French phrases carried sinister meanings and when people called the literary pseudo-movement of the Nineties fin-de-siècle it added an ominous purple hue to the earlier writings of Wilde and of those..who imitated him. |