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Forties   /fˈɔrtiz/   Listen
Forties

noun
1.
The time of life between 40 and 50.  Synonym: mid-forties.
2.
The decade from 1940 to 1949.  Synonym: 1940s.






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"Forties" Quotes from Famous Books



... "great American novel," yet to come. I refer to the absence of a school of American fiction, or poetry, or drama, that has linked itself to any tradition broader than the romance of the colonies, New England of the 'forties, or the East Side of New York. The men who most often write for all America are mediocre. They strike no deeper than a week-old interest in current activity. They aim to hit the minute because they are shrewd enough ...
— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby

... in his late and corpulent forties and was something of a dandy. If one were captious, one might object to the thickness of his lips. They suggested sensuality. And there was a shade—a bare shade—more of pigment in his skin than the American passes altogether unquestioned. And ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various



Words linked to "Forties" :   time of life, mid-forties, adulthood, decade, decennary, maturity, decennium



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