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glorious thirty

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English

Syllables
glo-ri-ous thir-ty
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A thirty-year period of economic growth in France between 1945 and 1975, following the end of World War II.

Etymology

Calque of French Trente Glorieuses, first used in the title of a 1979 book on the topic by the French demographer Jean Fourastié.

Inflected Forms

the Glorious Thirty (canonical)

Questions

What does glorious thirty mean?
A thirty-year period of economic growth in France between 1945 and 1975, following the end of World War II.
Where does glorious thirty come from?
Calque of French Trente Glorieuses, first used in the title of a 1979 book on the topic by the French demographer Jean Fourastié.

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