Fin de siècle

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(idea) by teleny (11.2 hr) (print) ? I like it! Fri Jan 26 2001 at 19:59:49

French for "end of the century", it refers specifically to the end of the 19th century, and its contemporary art movements of Symbolism, Decadence, and Art Nouveau. It connotes absinthe, edible hashish, sick men, and naked, predatory women.

(thing) by Kalkin (2 wk) (print) ? I like it! Sun Sep 16 2001 at 9:50:52

FIN DE SIECLE

An album by The Divine Comedy
08/98
CD/LCD/MC/LP
SETCD/CDL/MC/LP057

Generation Sex
Thrillseeker
Commuter Love
Sweden
Eric The Gardener
National Express
Life On Earth
The Certainty Of Chance
Here Comes The Flood
Sunrise

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) I like it! Sat Dec 24 2005 at 7:52:47

Fin` de siè"cle (?). [F.]

Lit., end of the century; -- mostly used adjectively in English to signify: belonging to, or characteristic of, the close of the 19th century; modern; "up- to-date;" as, fin-de-siècle ideas.

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The Great E2 Fin de Siecle Fiction Challenge	La Belle Époque	millenarianism	Decadence
Symbolist	The 1-sentence Fin de Siecle Fiction Challenge Entry	Divine Comedy	The Divine Comedy
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse	Noir Désir	Absinthe	Brotherhood of the Wolf
Sweden	Thrillseeker	Dancers at the End of Time	Sympathique
fin-de-siecle	Shub-Internet	Hairy armpits on women are attractive	The Sleeping Gypsy
Art Nouveau	Sex, Art, and American Culture	sunrise	Here Comes the Flood

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