“siecle”

The following 2 entries include the term siecle.

fin de siècle

adjective

: of, relating to, or characteristic of the close of the 19th century and especially its literary and artistic climate of sophistication, world-weariness, and fashionable despair

mal de siècle

French noun phrase

: world malaise : world-weariness

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