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Jacobethan, a.|dʒækəˈbiːθən|
[Blend of Jacobean a. and Elizabethan a.]
Of design: that displays a combination of the Elizabethan and Jacobean styles. Also transf. and ellipt. as n.
1933J. Betjeman Ghastly Good Taste iv. 53 The style in which Gothic predominates may be called, inaccurately enough, Elizabethan, and the style in which the classical predominates over the Gothic, equally inaccurately, may be called Jacobean. To save the time of those who do not wish to distinguish between these periods of architectural uncertainty, I will henceforward use the term ‘Jacobethan’. Ibid. 54 To me the appeal of Jacobethan is indeed remote... Jacobethan architecture may be ugly, but it is never dull. 1945Archit. Rev. Nov. 124/3 Westcombe Park Road..shows an early tendency towards those ornamental features which long afterwards gave the names of ‘sham Tudor’ and ‘Jacobethan’ to a rather pathetic phase in domestic design. 1966Listener 22 Dec. 928/1 The hacienda-Jacobethan garage with which the inhabitants of Sompting are so rightfully delighted. 1969J. Gross Rise & Fall Man of Lett. i. 13 Archaisms, hand-picked quotations, artful Jacobethan echoes. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 7 June 602/4 The specimen quoted is a pseudo-archaic piece of ‘Jacobethan’ prose, modelled on the style of the King James Bible. |