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Edwardian
Edwardian
English
Adjective
Edwardian (comparative more Edwardian, superlative most Edwardian)
- Of the period in British history from circa 1900 to 1910, when Edward VII ruled the British Empire.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
- In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
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Translations
relating to the reign of Edward VII
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