Biedermeier. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Biedermeier

SYLLABICATION:	Bie·der·mei·er
PRONUNCIATION:	bdr-mr
ADJECTIVE:	Of or relating to a type of furniture developed in Germany during the first half of the 19th century and modeled after French Empire styles.
ETYMOLOGY:	After Gottlieb Biedermeier, the unsophisticated imaginary author of poems written by Ludwig Eichrodt (1827–1892) and others.


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