Elizabethian

English

Etymology

Elizabeth +‎ -ian

Adjective

Elizabethian (comparative more Elizabethian, superlative most Elizabethian)

  1. Of or pertaining to Queen Elizabeth.
    • 1817 [1983], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
      Both in respect of this and of the former excellence, Mr. Wordsworth strikingly resembles Samuel Daniel, one of the golden writers of our golden Elizabethian age, now most causelessly neglected: [...]
    • 1850 [1996], Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
      This was bad enough; but, as the philosophic Dane observes, with that universal applicability which distinguishes the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethian Era, worse remains behind.
    • 1995, Bruno Nettl, Heartland Excursions‎:
      The correlation between costume and musical category is so strong that a hearing-impaired person could usually identify style and category by noting whether the musicians wear tuxedos, blazers, turtlenecks, robes, dhotis, Elizabethian garb, T-shirts with holes, or leather jackets.

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