Empire
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]See empire.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛmpaɪə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛmpaɪɚ/
Adjective
[edit]Empire (not comparable)
- (fashion, furniture, art) Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814).
- 1997, Mark McGrail, Furniture Brasses: A Short History of English Furniture Fittings, Armac Brassworks, →ISBN, page 21:
- However, the first style of this century was known as Empire furniture. It was a derivative of the French Empire furniture, popular at that time.
- (of a woman's dress) Having the waistline just below the bust; featuring an empire waist.
- 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York: Random House, →OCLC, page 17:
- ...and for a moment he could not identify the lady in the Empire dress, nor imagine why her presence created such excitement among the initiated.
- (British, dated, of wine) Produced in a dependency of the British Empire oder Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1966, Richard Stone, D.A. Rowe, The Measurement of Consumers' Expenditure and Behaviour in the United Kingdom, 1920-1938, volume 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 179:
- Wine from Portugal and France showed an irregular downward tendency over the period, while Empire wine from Australia and British South Africa rose rapidly, the former increasing nearly threefold between 1925 and 1927.
Proper noun
[edit]Empire
- A number of places in the Vereinigte Staaten:
- An unincorporated community in Walker County, Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in Chicot County, Arkansas.
- A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
- A town in Clear Creek County, Colorado, named after the Empire State.
- A census-designated place and former town in Dodge County and Bleckley County, Georgia.
- An unincorporated community and coal town in Christian County, Kentucky.
- A census-designated place in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
- A township and village therein, in Leelanau County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Butler County, Missouri.
- A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada.
- A village in Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.
- A district of the city of Coos Bay, Coos County, Oregon.
- A town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
- A former community in Goshen County, Wyoming.
- A number of other townships, listed under Empire Township.
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