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Definition of: Gilded Age, the
A post-Civil War period (1870–98) of waxing plutocratic accumulation and display in the United States: from The Gilded Age (1871), a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner depicting the newly emergent plutocracy with its conspicuous consumption and waste.
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