English Explanatory Dictionary

fantasy of manners

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A literary work in a fantasy genre that is also a comedy of manners.

Word forms

fantasy of manners fantasies of manners

Etymology

Modelled on earlier comedy of manners. First used in print by science fiction critic Donald G. Keller in the April 1991 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction.

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