fin-de-siecle

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Alternative spelling of fin-de-siècle
fin de siècle
Pertaining to the close of the 19th century, usually ascribed to the literary and artistic climate of modernism, world-weariness, and self-indulgence
fin de siecle
relating to or characteristic of the end of a century (especially the end of the 19th century); "fin de siecle art