Usually means: French architectural style, mansard roofs.
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  1. Second Empire, Second Empire: Merriam-Webster
  2. Second Empire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Second Empire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Second Empire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Second Empire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Second Empire: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. second empire: Dictionary.com
  8. Second Empire (France), Second Empire (architecture), Second Empire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Second empire: Rhymezone
  10. second empire: FreeDictionary.org
  11. second empire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. Second Empire: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Second Empire: Wiktionary

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  1. Second Empire: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Second Empire)

▸ noun:  An architectural and furniture style that originated in the French Second Empire.
▸ noun:  Ellipsis of Second French Empire. (1852–1870) [(historical) The French empire ruled by Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870.]

Similar:
empire, Roman Empire, British Empire, egyptian empire, imperialistic, turkish empire, imperial, imperialist, Imperiale, Byzantine Empire, more...

Opposite:
first empire, initial reign, early dynasty

Phrases:
Second Empire style, Second French Empire, Second Mexican Empire, Second Bulgarian Empire, Second Empire of Haiti, more...

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Similar:
empire, Roman Empire, British Empire, egyptian empire, imperialistic, turkish empire, imperial, imperialist, Imperiale, Byzantine Empire, more...

Opposite:
first empire, initial reign, early dynasty

Phrases:
Second Empire style, Second French Empire, Second Mexican Empire, Second Bulgarian Empire, Second Empire of Haiti, Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada, more...



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