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Elizabethian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Elizabeth + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from; like; related to’ forming adjectives), referring to Elizabeth I (1533–1603).

Meanings

1. Synonym of Elizabethan (“pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603”).
   • 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. 1995, Bruno Nettl, Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music, page 33:
   • 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: […] 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Characteristic Defects of [William] Wordsworth’s Poetry, with the Principles from which the Judgement, that They are Defects, is Deduced—Their Proportion to the Beauties—For the Greatest Part Characteristic of His Theory only”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume II, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, page 166:
   • 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! 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 532:

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Elizabethan

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