Rossettianadj.
/rəˈzɛtɪən/, /rɒˈzɛtɪən/, U.S. /rəˈzɛdiən/, /roʊˈzɛdiən/ Relating to or characteristic of Rossetti or his work.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > Pre-Raphaelite > specific artists
Rossettian1861
Burne-Jones1892
Burne-Jonesian1895
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [adjective] > specific poets > specific English, Scottish, or American poets
Chaucerian1660
Miltonian1708
Miltonic1708
Popean1730
Shakespeareana1754
Darwinian1794
Spenseric1795
Wordsworthian1810
Southeyan1817
Spenserian1817
Byronian1822
Byronic1823
Byronish1830
Coleridgian1834
Chattertonian1838
Keatsian1845
Tennysonian1846
Shelleyana1849
Patmorean1855
Rossettian1861
Praedesque1865
Swinburnian1865
Byro nical1871
Browningese1880
Browningesque1880
Patmorial1880
Wordsworthy1880
Browningitec1882
Whitmanesque1882
Thomsonian1890
Burnsian1904
Praedian1905
Blakeian1906
Poundian1917
Thompsonian?1921
Whitmanisha1930
Whitmanian1948
Betjemanic1956
Betjeman1958
Betjemanesque1959
Betjemanish1959
Whitmannica1960
1861 Sat. Rev. 10 Aug. 144/1 The Rossettian theory, by which the narrative of Dante's early love was worked into an enigmatic..parable.
1881 ‘V. Lee’ Let. in P. Gunn Vernon Lee (1964) vii. 79 All the Rossettian poeticules.
1905 G. B. Shaw Let. 11 Sept. (1972) II. 555 His [sc. W. Morris's] old Rossettian associates called him Topsy.
1927 E. Sitwell in Daily Mail 30 June 10/4 In provincial cities we may still find relics of Rossettian heads of fox-coloured hair.
1974 K. Clark Another Part of Wood v. 179 An invitation to dine was in Rossettian language ‘Come and grub with me’, but dinner was more Beardsleyan.
1999 Independent (Nexis) 25 May 11 You end up with the feeling of a Rossettian masquerade in which medieval characters have dressed up as fin-de-siecle townies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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