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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
turn-of-the-century
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Turn-of-the-century New Orleans was a fascinating mix of cultures.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A girl screamed, and a masked man ran through the bar, pursued by two cops in turn-of-the-century uniforms.
▪ Both are inner-city areas, with tall residential buildings and workplaces lining narrow turn-of-the-century streets.
▪ Each of them is part and parcel of the turn-of-the-century crisis in the hegemony of the bourgeoisie.
▪ Other turn-of-the-century artists, easy to fake because their works were frequently not numbered, were also produced there.
▪ The company have retained the leisurely atmosphere of the turn-of-the-century light railway being situated off the major tourist circuits.
▪ The latest proposal is for a £2.5m superstore on the site of Craiglea, an 11-bedroom turn-of-the-century guest house.

Usage examples of "turn-of-the-century".

EHRLICH would of course be Paul Ehrlich, the famous turn-of-the-century bacteriologist who had won the Nobel Prize.

There were ormolu candlesticks, Bessarabian carpets, tale top tables, George III sterling, tea caddies, militia drums, turn-of-the-century jewelry, nineteenth-century mirrors.

Volvo on the shabby little street in South Boston where Suzie Walker lived, in the turn-of-the-century cottage that, like so many others, had become a rental unit.

You examine a detailed reconstruction of a procession of priests climbing up one of the great ziggurats of Sumer, or a gorgeously painted tomb in the Valley of the Kings in ancient Egypt, or a house in ancient Rome, or a full-scale turn-of-the-century street in small town America.

As backdrops, they had tall floor-to-ceiling banners - colorized images of turn-of-the-century politicians: Teddy Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, and William McKinley.

Aglifc lived in the Piazzale Susa area: a little secluded street, a turn-of-the-century building, soberly art nouveau.

But her mind refused to accept what her eyes were telling her: she seemed to be looking down on a turn-of-the-century building bathed in artificial light-one of those twenty-story milk cartons she had seen pictures of.

He had brown hair and beard, he was a little below average height, he was well-muscled, he wore the typical clothes of a turn-of-the-century student Externally, then, he conformed.

The cab took them onto Front Street, which bordered the blue-gray waters of the Bering Sea, past the turn-of-the-century city hall, terminus for the Iditarod dogsled race, dropping them off at the barge port and fishing harbor where their leased float plane awaited with a full tank of fuel.

I realized that part must be the Bermuda Triangle, and about then it dawned that the turn-of-the-century Yank with the bitter face might be Ambrose Bierce.

Some of the more notable items that the booster club had received included a turn-of-the-century Ouija board (courtesy of CeeCee’.

The passion for betting on a daily number was common ground between Italian and Irish immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York, and an army of street hustlers and gangsters was eager to profit from this passion.

THE HORSES AND THE TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE OF THE OLD HOUSES, AND THE WOODEN BARRACKS, AND THE PARADE GROUNDS-WHICH ARE LEFT OVER FROM THE INDIAN WARS-MAKE EVERYTHING FEEL LIKE THE PAST.

Beyond was a turn-of-the-century railroad Pullman car, an odd-looking sailboat mounted on a rubber raft and a bathtub with an outboard motor attached on one end.

They could visualize her libraries stacked with books, her smoking rooms filled with the blue haze of gentlemen's cigars, and hear the music of her band playing turn-of-the-century ragtime.