period piece
noun
: a work (as of literature, art, furniture, cinema, or music) whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period
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The book also inspired Clueless, which is more of a time capsule of 1995 than a period piece.
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Lia Beck, EW.com, 25 June 2025
Adapting literary sources, Season 1’s films tended towards period pieces.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 18 June 2025
First and foremost, the movie is a period piece revisiting the horrors of the AIDS epidemic with actual horror, transforming HIV-positive patients into humans whose bodies gradually turn to marble, like X-Men crossed with the Greek antiquities wing at the Louvre.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2025
The setting is medieval—Taylor loved a period piece.
—Marina Harss, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
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Lia Beck, EW.com, 25 June 2025
Adapting literary sources, Season 1’s films tended towards period pieces.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 18 June 2025
First and foremost, the movie is a period piece revisiting the horrors of the AIDS epidemic with actual horror, transforming HIV-positive patients into humans whose bodies gradually turn to marble, like X-Men crossed with the Greek antiquities wing at the Louvre.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2025
The setting is medieval—Taylor loved a period piece.
—Marina Harss, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for period piece
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“Period piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/period%20piece. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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