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Gay Nineties

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Gay Nineties
(Naughty Nineties) the 1890s; the fin-de-siècle epoch when traditional Victorian religiosity was flouted. [Am. and Br. Hist.: Payton, 264]

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For instance, ``The Gay Nineties Cook Book,'' printed in 1945, with recipes from the Gilded Age, ran $25 with a cover and $15 without.
 
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