Meaning of 1870s | Babel Free

Definitions

The decade from 1870 to 1879.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“Bertha Von Hillern was an amazingly fast speed⟳ and endurance walker. In the 1870s, America went crazy, and crowds of thousands gathered to see⟳ this "pedestrienne" compete⟳ strategically.”

“Absinthe ads like⟳ to trade⟳ on artists like⟳ Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, as if the history of the green fairy began in the Pigalle neighborhood of 1870s Paris, but wormwood-infused drinks have⟳ been around for thousands of years.”

“Funicular railways take⟳ gradients to the extreme, running two cars in counterbalanced, contrary motion over often-perilous cliff inclines. […] Britain's first funicular railways arrived in Scarborough in the 1870s.”

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