English

Adjective

Elizabethian ‎(comparative more Elizabethian, superlative most Elizabethian)

1. Of or pertaining to Queen Elizabeth.
   • 1817 [1983], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria

     Both in respect of this and of the former excellence, Mr. Wordsworth strikingly resembles Samuel Daniel, one of the golden writers of our golden Elizabethian age, now most causelessly neglected: [...]

   • 1850 [1996], Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

     This was bad enough; but, as the philosophic Dane observes, with that universal applicability which distinguishes the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethian Era, worse remains behind.

   • 1995, Bruno Nettl, Heartland Excursions

     The correlation between costume and musical category is so strong that a hearing-impaired person could usually identify style and category by noting whether the musicians wear tuxedos, blazers, turtlenecks, robes, dhotis, Elizabethian garb, T-shirts with holes, or leather jackets.

Synonyms

• Elizabethan