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adj. Conspicuously (sometimes outrageously) modern in style or appearance.
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adj. relating to a recently developed fashion or style
Word Usage
"Since then the inadequate French exhibition of 1921, the Bellows Memorial Exhibition, and the recent "modernistic" decorators 'show have been the only events in the Metropolitan which might be called modern."