Biedermeier

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    of or relating to a style of furniture developed in Germany in the 19th century

Word Origin

Biedermeier
1854, from German, from Gottlieb Biedermeier, name of a fictitious writer of stodgy poems (invented by Ludwig Eichrodt as a satire on bourgeois taste); the name applied to styles prevalent in Germany 1815-48; also "conventional, bourgeois."

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