art nouveau

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  1. noun A style of decoration and architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, characterized particularly by the depiction of leaves and flowers in flowing, sinuous lines.

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  1. French : art, art + nouveau, new.

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  1. French, ‘new art.’
 

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