silver fork novel

noun

Etymology

Coined by English essayist and writer William Hazlitt in 1827.

Definitions

  1. A 19th-century genre of English literature that depicted the lives of the upper class and…

    A 19th-century genre of English literature that depicted the lives of the upper class and the aristocracy.

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