ART NOUVEAU

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 I. (noun) 

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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

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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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