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Second Empire

Second Empire is the ellipsis of Second French Empire.

Meaning of Second French Empire

Proper noun

Second French Empire

  1. (historical) The French empire ruled by Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870.

Noun

Second Empire (uncountable)

  1. An architectural and furniture style that originated in the French Second Empire.

Questions about Second Empire

What does Second Empire mean?
Second Empire means an architectural and furniture style that originated in the French Second Empire.
What is Second Empire the ellipsis of?
Second Empire is the ellipsis of Second French Empire.
What part of speech is Second Empire?
Second Empire is a noun.

Words near Second Empire in the dictionary

  1. second distance
  2. second division
  3. second divisions
  4. second down
  5. second downs
  6. Second Empire
  7. second estate
  8. second families
  9. second family
  10. second fiddle
  11. second fiddles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Second Empire (page history and authors); Second French Empire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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