moderne
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8.4
- noun
- /mɒˈdɜrn/
- Specialized
:
mueble moderno
- In France that year (1977), the Centre d'Art Moderne, Beaubourg, was inaugurated, with a major exhibition dedicated to the artist.
- Musée d'Art Moderne
- L'Art Moderne
- Musée d'Art Moderne
Examples
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Sunrooms, where patients would once get fresh air and observe the changing seasons, had been largely stripped of their Art Moderne features and windows sheathed in plastic, sharply cracked where bodies and chairs of another time impacted it.
Blog text (25) -
"All the original Art Moderne glass too."
Fiction book (2001) -
About Design Moderne
Blog text (23) -
A high-priced building with a Moderne facade and a doorman.
Fiction book (1992) -
He expresses the secrets of a woman's hidden... soul on lingerie moderne
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Most of the real characters had long ago been pushed out of the profession or early-retired to pickle themselves slowly and decorously in hillside moderne homes.
Fiction book (2002) -
Hippolyte Lecomte, "Des tendances de la peinture moderne," L'Art Moderne 12 (February 21, 1892): 58.4.
Academic text (2015) -
Will Grohmann, "Henri Matisse," in Will Grohmann: Texte zur Kunst der Moderne, p. 166.
Academic text (2013) -
The apparent contradiction was clearly formulated at the turn of the century in the most influential treatises, like Otto Wagner's 1896 Moderne Architektur, the first to use the expression.
Academic text (2000) -
The hotel showcases stunning Art Moderne design with its smooth lines and minimalist decor.
Antonyms
How Modern
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4.8
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4.2
- Specialized
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8.4
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Moderne comes from French and Latin modernus, from modo meaning 'just now' or 'recent'. So a moderne building or piece of furniture is a thing made in that 'modern' 1930s style, with smooth curves and chrome details.