1890s

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1. pluralplural onlyThe period from year 1890 to (the end of) year 1899; almost the same period as the 10th (and last) decade of the 19th century, which, however, was the years 1891 to 1900.

   The new hygienism beginning in the 1890s, on the other hand, dealt with the most private and intimate: clothing, the bedroom, personal cleanliness.

   2005, Miriam R. Levin, Cultures of Control, page 96

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   The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.

   2000, Bill Manhire, Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page 124

   […] the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel, during which prostitutes in the poor areas of 1880s and 1890s London became the victims of an infamous string of throat slittings.

   2011, Paula Leverage, Theory of Mind and Literature, page 94

   Synonyms: Gay Nineties, Naughty Nineties, Roaring Nineties