of or relating to a decorative and furnishing style in mid-19th-century Germany, characterized by solidity and conventionality
2.
boringly conventional in outlook; bourgeois
Word origin
C19: after Gottlieb Biedermeier, a fictitious character portrayed as a conventional unimaginative bourgeois and theauthor of poems actually written by several satirical poets
Biedermeier in American English
(ˈbidərˌmaɪər)
adjective
designating or of a style of German furniture design in the first half of the 19thcent., characterized by solidity, comfort, and deliberate simplicity of decoration
Word origin
Ger, after (Gottlieb) Biedermeier, fictitious author of stodgy poems published (1855-57, and later) by Adolf Kussmauland Ludwig Eichrodt to satirize Ger bourgeois tastes
Examples of 'Biedermeier' in a sentence
Biedermeier
Rebecca moves from Braque to Brancusi, from Hockney to Biedermeier.
Sean Thomas THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE (2002)
She was ashamed of the Biedermeier armoire filled with designer clothes.