1850s

1850s pl (plural only)

1. The decade from 1850 to 1859.
   • 1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 832:

     Many years elapsed before the success of Kemp Town as a residential district was assured; the foundations of the estate were laid in 1823, but some houses remained untenanted until the 1850s.

   • 2007 January 9, Anne Midgette, “Retrofitting Operetta for a 21st-Century Crowd”, in The New York Times‎:

     Born as a French satiric form with the bouffes of Jacques Offenbach in the 1850s, it moved on, like most Parisian fashions, to Vienna […] .

   • 2010, Susan Cayleff, Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health, Temple University Press, page 88:

     Before the 1850s, when women figured most prominently in textile employment, the reasons that caused women to seek paid labor—a ne'er-do-well husband, economic distress of the natal family, or a belief that factory work was a road to self-betterment—often precluded their considering an away-from-home cure.

   • 2019 June 10, Mimi Vu, “How a 19th-Century Workman’s Cottage Became a Family Home”, in The New York Times Style Magazine‎:

     But for Stefanie Brechbuehler and Robert Highsmith, the husband-and-wife co-founders of the Brooklyn-based design firm Workstead, the recent revamp of an 1850s residence in upstate New York not only presented them with a thrilling challenge, it also marked a celebratory homecoming after a few years spent living in the South.