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Caroline, a.|ˈkærəlaɪn|
[f. Carol-us Charles.]
1. Of or pertaining to Charles: esp.
a. of Charles the Great (Charlemagne); spec. designating a style of minuscule handwriting developed in France at the time of Charlemagne;
b. of Charles I. and II. of England, or their period.
1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 322 Under the Caroline kings. 1805W. Saunders Min. Waters 314 The village of Carlsbad..as well as..the Caroline Waters [named after] the emperor Charles IV. in 1370. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. iv. v. §22. 234 Waller has a more uniform elegance..than any [other] of the Caroline era. 1850F. Madden tr. J. B. Silvestre's Univ. Palæogr. I. cxxix. 346 The text is in clear, well proportioned, Caroline minuscules, with the words not divided, the tails and tops of the letters of proper length, and the strokes of the m and n inclined towards the left; graphic characters which indicate the ninth century, and the kind of writing termed Caroline. 1874F. Hall in N. Amer. Rev. CXIX. 310 Our Caroline divines. 1883I. Taylor Alphabet II. viii. 181 Owing to its manifold excellencies..the rapidity with which it could be written, the ease with which it could be read, and economy of parchment, the Caroline minuscule, as it is usually called, grew rapidly in favour. 1884Courthope Addison i. 20 The Caroline dramatists. 1897[see Carolingian A]. 1957N. R. Ker Catal. MSS. containing Anglo-Saxon p. xxii, It should be assumed that..writing dated s. xi or later is caroline minuscule. 1962D'Ardenne in Davis & Wrenn Eng. & Medieval Studies 85 The manuscript is written in Latin on parchment in a smooth round English form of the caroline minuscule.
†2. Applied in end of 17th c. to a fashion of hat.
1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2246/4, 25 black Hats, commonly called Caroline. 1695Ibid. No. 3119/4 A Young Man, aged about 17..wears..a Carolina Hat. |