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elizabethan
CIDE DICTIONARY
elizabethan, prop. a.
Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth I. or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature. Lowell. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
elizabethan, adj. & n.
--adj. of the time of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) or of Queen Elizabeth II (1952- ).
--n. a person, esp. a writer, of the time of Queen Elizabeth I or II.
--adj. of the time of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) or of Queen Elizabeth II (1952- ).
--n. a person, esp. a writer, of the time of Queen Elizabeth I or II.
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