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Kensingtonian, n. and a.|kɛnzɪŋˈtəʊnɪən|
[f. Kensington (see prec.) + -ian.]
A. n. An inhabitant of Kensington.
1889G. B. Shaw in Star 6 Dec. 2/5 The Kensingtonians are asses to neglect these concerts. 1951R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse 45 Zulus are far more important..than dogs to Kensingtonians. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xv. 267 The whole of this great grey sun-baked continent [sc. Australia] she regarded much as if it were Hornsey or Tooting Bec, and she a Kensingtonian of high degree. 1968Listener 6 June 733/1 Hot or cool jazz would have been just too much and might have driven out the dreary West Kensingtonians with their dim uniformed escorts. 1974Times 23 May 16/7 A Kensingtonian in her eighties..missed the style and elegance of the old shop.
b. A supposedly refined or affected manner of speech typical of people living in Kensington. rare.
1911A. Bennett Hilda Lessways i. x. 91 Hilda..had been deprived of her Five Towns accent at Chetwynd's School, where the purest Kensingtonian was inculcated.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Kensington; spec. denoting refined or affected speech.
1902A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns xi. 290 His broad Five Towns speech contrasting with the Kensingtonian accents of the coroner. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 27 June 541/1 Superior Margery Seymour, with her Kensingtonian ‘mothah and brothah’. 1958Listener 2 Oct. 537/1 A truly Kensingtonian drawing-room. 1960Times 24 Feb. 15/3 Miss Maggie Smith and Miss Moyra Fraser at times vocally suggested mere Kensingtonian refinement. 1961Wodehouse Service with Smile (1962) v. 73 Somehow it seemed worse and more wounding coming from those Kensingtonian lips. 1971Listener 28 Oct. 596/3 Kensingtonian shrieks, with fiddle, indicated Gypsies relaxing. |