steampunk
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A subgenre of fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires. history
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A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
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To depict in a steampunk manner.
(quote-journal) (Life! section)|location=Singapore|date=26 October 2011|passage=W. S. Anderson|Director Paul W.S. Anderson's answer to the question of what to update in this film seems to be: steampunk everything. Hence the elaborate airship contraptions and weapons, all made in wood and iron and powered by choo-choo engines. What seems to be missing is the why. When far-fetched techno-bits and bobs are put into a story, these items must have a meaning and purpose. Here, the gadgets are throwaway items used for their visual effect, then discarded.
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