Thing or behavior that achieves intense short-lived popularity and then fades away

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A popular and fashionable centre devoted to the arts and sciences. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.

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A popular and fashionable centre devoted to the arts and sciences. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.