satanic mill

A form of dark satanic mill — A mill or factory during the Industrial Revolution, seen as monstrous and dehumanizing

Meanings

nounsatanic mill (plural satanic mills)

plural satanic mills

  1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of dark satanic mill.

    Heat is in many old paintings, too: fires blaze horribly in depictions of hell or of the industrial revolution's satanic mills.

    2010 May 13, Jonathan Jones, “Artist Cerith Wyn Evans fires up the White Cube”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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