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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Queen Elizabeth.

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Elizabeth +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • Have a photo of 2 recent ones on my blog, Elizabethian Tea.

    The Colorful Garments Painted by Eugene de Blaas (1815-1894) 2009

  • Instead of a Bohemian setting it's Elizabethian England and a ship traveling on the high seas.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Liviu 2010

  • Hi Mrs Sherman, I wrote a post on slips (dress liners) on my blog - Elizabethian Tea at wordpress.

    New Link 2008

  • Instead of a Bohemian setting it's Elizabethian England and a ship traveling on the high seas.

    "The Celestial Globe: The Kronos Chronicles Book Two" by Marie Rutkoski (Reviewed by Cindy Hannikman) Cindy 2010

  • Which is essentially just a nice way of saying what hecklerspray has been carping on about for years: that modern-day England is a chav-fuelled cesspit of coked-up, boozed-up bitterness, a churning vomit-speckled sea of happy slapping, illiteracy, selfishness, GCSE failure and rejected McDonalds applications, all overseen by a decrepit monarchy hell-bent on preserving this decaying island as some some of putrid Elizabethian theme park.

    Anna Nicole Smith Definitely Pregnant Again 2005

  • I will say that the Elizabethian dialogue and frequent quotations from plays of that era can be difficult to get through at times, but its worth it.

    Ruled Britannia: A Book Review 2006

  • Indeed it is not too much to say that more individuals in such a gathering as is normally found at church or court in Western North Carolina will understand and relish an Elizabethian drama than can be brought together under the same conditions elsewhere in the land.

    North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896

  • I have never mentioned either "Elizabethian English" or "a slavish word for word equivalence" a single time in any of my posts.

    Joseph S. O'Leary homepage 2010

  • Ben Jonson This Elizabethian writer was disgraced at the 1988 Olympics when he was caught stealing stereos.

    Chinalyst - China blogs in English 2010

  • 5. You can certainly find time to read eighteen Elizabethian lyrics.

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

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