Proper noun
Populuxe
An optimistic, futuristic consumer culture and aesthetic in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.
L. A. likes to think of Las Vegas as the populuxe mirage of Hollywood, a place where middle-class tourists look like movie stars but aren't, spend like millionaires but aren't. Richard Rodriguez
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century. John Lahr