Meaning of American Empire | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The United States of America together with its allies, viewed as having the qualities characteristic of an empire.
2. A French-inspired neoclassical style of American furniture and decoration originating from the Empire style introduced during the First French Empire period under Napoleon's rule.

Examples

“The one thing that Noam Chomsky and Paul Wolfowitz might agree⟳ upon is the reality of an American Empire.”

“It need⟳ not be so true to style as the furniture intended for a more pretentious house, and the mahogany American Empire furniture, so popular about 1820, will become⟳ a farmhouse dwelling.”

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