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Angrian, a.
[f. Angria (see below) + -an.]
Of or pertaining to Angria, an imaginary African empire invented by the Brontë children (Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne) in stories that they composed. Also as n.
1834C. Brontë Twelve Adv. (1925) 168 The wife of Northangerland, the prima donna of the Angrian Court. 1834P. B. Brontë in Misc. Unpub. Writ. (1936) I. 435 Sound the loud Trumpet o'er Afric's bright sea; Zamorna hath triumphed: the Angrians are free. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Oct. 784/3 These Angrian games are the most curiously exciting ever played by children. 1954K. Tillotson Novels of Eighteen-Forties i. 97 Recollected from Charlotte's early reading, through her own Angrian romances. |