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Stracheyan, a.|ˈstreɪtʃiːən|
[f. the name of the English biographer and critic Giles Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) + -an.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Strachey or his style of writing.
1927Observer 9 Oct. 6/2 Mr. Burdett's ‘Gladstone’..owes to Mr. Strachey nothing but its size; it is a Victorian revaluation on a Stracheian scale. 1958Sunday Times 22 June 6/4 A profusion of fancy adjectives and Stracheyan present participles. 1967Punch 25 Oct. 639/2 The tone of it, if not derisive and iconoclastic in quite the Stracheyan manner, is none the less far from hushed and reverential. 1974K. Clark Another Part of Wood v. 174, I had escaped from the infection of Stracheyan irony that influenced my chapter on the Ecclesiologists. |