vorticism

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She had met the young man with the Albanian costume, and he had talked to her about vorticism and this jolly new Polish composer with his suite for tom-tom and cymbals.

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  1. noun A short-lived English movement in art and literature that arose in 1914 and was heavily influenced by cubism and futurism.

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  • She had met the young man with the Albanian costume, and he had talked to her about vorticism and this jolly new Polish composer with his suite for tom-tom and cymbals. —  The Innocents A Story for Lovers
 

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