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nincompoopiana|ˌnɪnkəmpuːpiːˈɑːna|
[f. nincompoop + -iana.]
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1895Beerbohm in Yellow Bk. Jan. 279 Long before this time there had been in the heart of Chelsea a kind of cult of Beauty... ‘Nincompoopiana’ the craze was called at first, and later ‘æstheticism’. 1970Sunday Times 18 Oct. 49/3 ‘Nincompoopiana’ began in the 1880s and was triggered off by the aesthetic movement which rebelled against the pretty and the respectable, and by the ‘new woman’. |