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19th-century neologisms

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great power
nation that has great political, military and economic influence
boycott
thumb|right|upright=1.1|Protesters advocating boycott of KFC due to [[animal welfare concerns]]
diglossia
thumb|upright=1.3|The station board of Hapur Junction railway station in [[North India demonstrating digraphia of two formal registers, Hindi and Urdu, of a common vernacular, Hindustani, an example of triglossia.]]
bohemianism
thumb|upright|Pierre-Auguste Renoir, In Summer (or Lise the Bohemian), 1868, oil on canvas, Berlin, Germany: [[Alte Nationalgalerie]]
petite bourgeoisie
social class
iron maiden
mythical torture device
shemale
Shemale (also spelled she-male) is a term most commonly used in the pornography industry to describe trans women or other people with male genitalia and female secondary sex characteristics (including breasts) acquired via hormones or surgery. Many people in the transgender community consider the term offensive and degrading. Using the term shemale for a trans woman may imply that she is working in the sex trade.
underdog
thumb|In the battle between David and [[Goliath, David is an archetypal example of an underdog.]] An underdog is a person or group participating in a competition, usually sports and creative works, who is largely expected to lose. The party, team, or individual expected to win is called the favorite or top dog. In the case where an underdog wins, the outcome is an upset. An "underdog bet" is a bet on the underdog or outsider for which the odds are generally higher.
carrot and stick
idiom that refers to a policy of offering a combination of rewards and punishment to induce behavior
Bosnian Cyrillic
Script
Byzantinism
Byzantinism, or Byzantism, is the political system and culture of the Byzantine Empire, and its spiritual successors the Orthodox Christian Balkan countries of Greece and Bulgaria especially, and to a lesser extent Serbia and some other Orthodox countries in Eastern Europe like Belarus, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine. The term Byzantinism itself was coined in the 19th century.
Captain goes down with the ship
maritime tradition
high society
behavior and life style of people with the highest levels of wealth and social status
windjammer
thumb|right|upright=1.3|Four-masted, iron-hulled barque [[Herzogin Cecilie—one of the fastest windjammers built]]
sexual inversion
outdated term referring to homosexuality
Russia for Russians
anti-multicultural sentiment
Francien
historical language spoken in Île-de-France
Kuzma's mother
character in a Russian idiom describing punishment
Afghanistanism
thumb|right|Afghanistan, on the other side of the world from [[North America]]
Austrian Riviera
Advertising term for Austrian Gorizia and Istria
Yellow dog Democrat
United States political term