English Explanatory Dictionary

coldwave

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A European style of post-punk music in the 1980s.
  2. The industrial metal music genre in the 1990s.

Word forms

coldwave cold wave

Etymology

From cold + wave, perhaps influenced by earlier genres such as new wave and darkwave. In France the post-punk genre was called la vague froide.

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