Jacobean

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There were three major styles in the seventeenth century: the Jacobean, the

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  • The irony of the transaction is striking; here was a piece of wood imported from the States only a few months before, converted in this country into Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Stuart furniture, and then, it may be, bought by American visitors and taken back to their own country. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
  • The furnishings were Elizabethan and Jacobean, but none of them, unfortunately, Shakespeare's (so a guide upstairs was informing the pilgrims), except for the old desk from the Stratford Grammar School, where young Will had had to endure no end of terrors. —  dirty duck.htm
  • Two dealers, Becky and her mate Tony who deal in Jacobean (approx) glassware (approx) sniggered. —  process 10
  • Instead, it may well seem to the visiting stranger little more than a fortuitous concourse of mediaeval, Elizabethan, Jacobean, and modern atoms, which time and the country builder, too unlearned to be vulgar, have harmonized into a very moderate, though admittedly attractive, “country seat,” of the smaller sort. —  The Adventure of Living
  • The old library is small, dark, Jacobean: the new library is in the deconsecrated church of St Peter's in the East. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
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  1. From New Latin Iacobaeus, from Late Latin Iacōbus, Iacobus, James, Jacob; see Jacob.
 

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/jæˈkoʊˈbikən, jækoʊkˈbiən/
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