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Word: watteaus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...like something out of Harper's Magazine. The Beast is not really beastly, merely unpleasant: Emmet Booth is nearly 50, short, balding, a self-made millionaire of lowly origins whose monster of an inferiority feeling must be appeased by constant sacrifices. Unsatiated by business triumphs and carloads of Watteaus, it now demands Miranda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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