Biedermeier Definition
bēdər-mīər
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.
American Heritage
Designating or of a style of chiefly middle-class German & Austrian furniture and interior design in the first half of the 19th cent., characterized by solidity, comfort, and deliberate simplicity of decoration.
Webster's New World
Designating or of the general middle-class German & Austrian culture of this period.
Webster's New World
Origin of Biedermeier
After Gottlieb Biedermeier , the unsophisticated imaginary author of poems written by Ludwig Eichrodt (1827–1892) and others
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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