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Date: 1900-2000
Language: French
Origin: 'new art'

Art Nouveau

 noun
     
Related topics: Visual
Art Nou‧veau [uncountable]
AV a style of art that used plants and flowers in paintings and in the design of objects and buildings, popular in Europe and America at the end of the 19th century
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