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Occurring around the time that one hundred-year calendar period moves into the next hundred-year calendar period.

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  • And take in the gilded fantasies of turn-of-the-century America.
  • It was a turn-of-the-century boathouse that finally stole my heart.
  • Most of the furniture was turn-of-the-century oak, practical, sturdy.
  • The building is a modern conversion of a redbrick turn-of-the-century warehouse.
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