Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heavily ornate style of furniture, architecture, and decoration that was developed in France in the middle of the 1800s.
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- noun the imperial government of Napoleon III in France from 1852-1870
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Today, after entering and passing under the clock, visitors walk the length of Orsay's colossal cofferred nave with its central allée of sculpture and flanking galleries of Second Empire decorations and mid-19th-century art.
New Visions Arrive at the Orsay Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011
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The Second Empire had lost its will,and even its self-respect.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The Second Empire had lost its will,and even its self-respect.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The Second Empire had lost its will,and even its self-respect.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The Second Empire had lost its will,and even its self-respect.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The Second Empire had lost its will,and even its self-respect.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Look at what the Second Empire had done for France.
Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 1890
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It was she who in the last years of the Second Empire had taught him bezique in all its varieties -- Japanese, Chinese, etc.
Parisian Points of View Ludovic Halevy 1871
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Their Budapest, the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s second city after Vienna, had the air of Paris under the Second Empire—and shared its grandiose aspirations.
Enemies of the People KATI MARTON 2009
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Their Budapest, the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s second city after Vienna, had the air of Paris under the Second Empire—and shared its grandiose aspirations.
Enemies of the People KATI MARTON 2009
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