Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·german ·1920s
Kitsch
from Kitsch
- Meaning
- Sentimental, lowbrow art mass-produced for popular taste.
- Source word
- Kitsch
- Route into English
- German art-criticism slang → English aesthetic vocabulary 1920s onwards (Greenberg, 1939).
- Arrived
- 1920s
English borrows.
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