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Elizabethan

Elizabethan \E*liz"a*beth`an\, prop. a. Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth I. or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature. -- n. One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
--Lowell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Elizabethan

"belonging to the period of Queen Elizabeth I" (1558-1603) of England, 1807 (Elizabethean); Coleridge (1817) has Elizabethian, and Carlyle (1840) finally attains the modern form. The noun is first attested 1859.\n\nJohn Knox, one of the exiles for religion in Switzerland, publiſhed his "Firſt Blaſt of the Trumpet againſt the Government of Women," in this reign [of Elizabeth]. It was lucky for him that he was out of the queen's reach when he ſounded the trumpet.

[The Rev. Mr. James Granger, "A Biographical History of England," 1769]

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Usage examples of "elizabethan".

I do not find these anapaests in the Elizabethan or in the seventeenthcentury poets, or most rarely.

Ashland, the Elizabethan and the Bowmer, share a common courtyard and also a common backstage area.

Among them were several young women of the Blessed Damozel school, who wore flowing garments of sap-green or orche, or puffed raiment of Venetian red, and among whom the cartwheel hat, the Elizabethan sleeve, and the Toby frill were conspicuous.

They were very similar to Elizabethan ballads, with an earthier, more direct quality than those smooth-flowing, prosaic pieces.

Our euphuists may pass away like those of the Elizabethan era, or, like the best of them, live in spite of faults with which they were gratuitously trammelled.

Skeres and Frizer and Marlowe himself, belonged on the fringes of the murky world of Elizabethan espionage.

Jessica is beautiful and lacks all the stigmata associated by Elizabethan audiences with Jews.

Then it was my turn to pick, and I jumped at the chance to write, once more, about Elizabethan England.

It was also Waad, involved in the discovery of all the major conspiracies of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean times, who was responsible for the interrogations centring on the Main and Bye Plots of 1603.

Although I am confident that my evidence was sufficient, there were members of the committee who failed to believe that the presence of previously undiscovered Spenserian and Elizabethan music among native Ozark hill people was anything but curious coincidence.

Ireland as part of the Elizabethan and Jacobean clearances of the native Irish population of Ulster and the Crom-wellian and Williamite settlements of the rest of the island.

It was minor Elizabethan dramatists, a subject none of the regular English Department was willing -- or, so far as he could tell, qualified -- to teach.

They noticed together how the moderns and the Elizabethans had much in common in their types of face, their way of wearing the hair, and their taste in monuments, while between them lie the intolerable affectations - which culminated towards the end of last century.

He took off his single boilersuit of a garment and drew from the locker his Elizabethan fancy dress.

She was black America, which was better than Cedar Rapids, but she was not Elizabethan London.