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- adjective Of or relating to William Shenstone (1714–1763),
English poet andlandscape gardener .
Etymologies
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Shenstone + -ian
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Examples
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I am in a fine disposition, my honoured friend, to send you an elegiac epistle; and want only genius to make it quite Shenstonian: --
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I am in a fine disposition, my honoured friend, to send you an elegiac epistle; and want only genius to make it quite Shenstonian: --
The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777
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"His parsonage-house at Brenthill is beautifully situated; but he has a good deal frittered away its beauty in grottos, hermitages and Shenstonian inscriptions.
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892
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