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- adjective Of or relating to Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886),
American architect , or theRomanesque style that he popularised.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was determined to build something different, so he built what’s called a Richardsonian Romanesque house.
Family Storms 2011
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He was determined to build something different, so he built what’s called a Richardsonian Romanesque house.
Family Storms 2011
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Richardsonian Romanesque, named after architect H.H. Richardson, who interpreted Romanesque architecture into a distinctly different style, and created one which abandoned the vertical silhouettes and smooth stone facings of earlier times.
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The distinctive architecture of downtown made Savannah the perfect choice for students studying art and design, and the first building of the new Savannah College of Art and Design was a dilapidated volunteer guards armory (a Richardsonian, Romanesque behemoth that seemed way too big at the time).
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The residual force, though, in a Richardsonian scenario, could just be a couple hundred Marines guarding the embassy compound.
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If you look across the street and slightly to your right, you will notice a curious three-story red-brick building with an incongruous Richardsonian-Romanesque limestone base.
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Moreover, she conveniently forgets the avalanche of prurient novels, slick magazine fiction, and movies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which a heroine is pursued by a lusting male who in turn is caught in marriage by the triumphant female; these are also the offspring of the Richardsonian novel, closer really to the original parent than anything written by Austen, the Brontës, or George Eliot.
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Mr. Watkins Tottle was proceeding to demonstrate that the Richardsonian principle was the best on which love could possibly be made, when he was interrupted by the entrance of Martha, with a little pink note folded like
Sketches by Boz 2007
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Mr. Watkins Tottle was proceeding to demonstrate that the Richardsonian principle was the best on which love could possibly be made, when he was interrupted by the entrance of Martha, with a little pink note folded like
Sketches by Boz 2007
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One of the finest examples they say of “Richardsonian Romanesque.”
American Connections James Burke 2007
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