Elizabethan

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This inspiration permeated the whole soil of national thought, and its embodiment in art and letters has hardly any parallel except in that brilliant morning of English thought which we know as the Elizabethan era.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of Elizabeth I of England or her reign.

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  • Our society, girls, is called the Elizabethan. —  Lalage's Lovers
  • It was on the Gothic construction that the Northern European and English Renaissance styles were grafted to form such styles as the Elizabethan, etc Illustration Moorish.--700 to 1600.$ The various Mohammedan styles can all be traced to the ancient Persian through the Byzantine. —  Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I
  • Especially noted for its fine wood carving Jacobean.--1603 to 1689.$ The English period immediately following the Elizabethan, and in most respects quite similar. —  Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I
  • It is no more legitimate to assert that it would have occurred to an Elizabethan--least of all to a personal acquaintance or to a publisher who stood toward his patron in the relation of a personal dependent--to describe 'young Lord Herbert,' of Elizabeth's reign, as 'Mr. William Herbert.' —  A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
  • Part of an old Norman tower still held itself erect amidst the Tudor, Elizabethan, and Victorian additions to the ancient place. —  The Dictator
 

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/əlɪzəˈbɛθən/
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