(fashion, furniture, art) Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814).
However, the first style of this century was known as Empire furniture. It was a derivative of the French Empire furniture, popular at that time.
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(Britain, dated, of wine) Produced in a dependency of the British Empire or Commonwealth of Nations.
Wine from Portugal and France showed an irregular downward tendency over the period, while Empire wine from Australia and British South Africa rose rapidly, the former increasing nearly threefold between 1925 and 1927.
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The aesthetic vocabulary of how people dress now — quiet luxury, coquette, mob wife, coastal grandmother, Y2K core, and every "-core" that came after.
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