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Carolian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin Carolus + -ian.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Carolean.
    alt of Carolean
    • Scarcely less interesting, perhaps, are the Carolian relics; — Charles the First's watch, his white silk drawers, the blood-spotted shirt which he wore upon the scaffold, and the sheet[…] 1861, Adam and Charles Black (Firm), Black's Guide to the South-eastern Counties of England: Sussex, page 528:
    • He had lived long enough among these strangers to know the proprieties, even with Carolian license – King Charles and his courtiers all libertines, as he had heard the Chaplain complain. Surely a judge would not take his mistress on circuit with him? 2021 May 1, Narrelle M Harris, The Only One in the World: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology, Clan Destine Press, →ISBN:
    • Armorial[:] Carolian arms on a plain shield between palm branches 1904, British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings, H-R, page 195:
    • [see title] 1885, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Hand-list of Unique Or Extremely Rare Elizabethan-Jacobean-Carolian Books: Privately Printed in Limited Numbers, page 1: