English Explanatory Dictionary

silver fork novel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A 19th-century genre of English literature that depicted the lives of the upper class and the aristocracy.

Word forms

silver fork novel silver fork novels silver-fork novel

Etymology

Coined by English essayist and writer William Hazlitt in 1827.

Synonyms

fashionable novel

Related words

silver spoon
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