art nouveau

1. 1.

   a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers

   Broaderschoolartistic movement

Questions about art nouveau

What does art nouveau mean?

art nouveau means "a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers".

Is art nouveau a common word?

art nouveau is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.