American empire
a style of American furniture making and related crafts from c1815 to c1840, corresponding to the French Empire and late English Regency styles.
Contemporary Examples
They could call it “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire.”
Latest GOP Debate Comical Enough to Be a Disney Animated Movie Leslie Bennetts November 13, 2011
He had always loathed the “American Empire” and its neoconservative apologists, especially Jews.
Becoming Gore Vidal: The Henry Adams of Our Age Morris Dickstein August 3, 2012
Historical Examples
To-morrow, if the present course is followed, it will be equally true in the American Empire.
The American Empire Scott Nearing
But the American Empire does not rest upon a political basis.
The American Empire Scott Nearing
Almost unconsciously, out of the necessities of the period, has come the structure of the American Empire.
The American Empire Scott Nearing
Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American Empire.
“Stops” Paul Allardyce
These owners and directors of the nation’s wealth have been the real builders of the American Empire.
The American Empire Scott Nearing
Mexico, considered internationally, is to-day a province of the American Empire.
The American Empire Scott Nearing
The American Empire has been built, as were the palaces of Aladdin, in a night.
The American Empire Scott Nearing
Behind him are the resources, productive machinery and surplus of the American Empire.
The American Empire Scott Nearing
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