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ART NOUVEAU
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Dictionary entry overview: What does art nouveau mean?
• ART NOUVEAU (noun)
The noun ART NOUVEAU has 1 sense:
1. a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers
Familiarity information: ART NOUVEAU used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("art nouveau" is a kind of...):
school (a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers)
art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)
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