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- adjective Of or pertaining to Catherine the Great (Catherine II, Empress of Russia).
Etymologies
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Catherine + -ian
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Examples
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Our talk, on the other hand, was not Parisian, -- but it was not Catherinian, -- and we subsided into
If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact Edward Everett Hale 1865
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