Bridesheadadj.
/ˈbrʌɪdzhɛd/, U.S. /ˈbraɪdzˌ(h)ɛd/ Reminiscent of the style, characters, plot, etc., of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), which depicts the lives of an aristocratic English family in the early 20th century; (more generally) of or relating to the world of the decadent English upper classes of this period.
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1961 Financial Times 12 June 18/2 A simple anecdotal narrative, yet it bears the Brideshead stamp clearly enough.
1978 Daily Mail 13 June 19 A mis-spent year at Christ Church, Oxford, spent roistering in ‘Brideshead’ style.
1986 Guardian (Nexis) 8 Aug. The elitism, the class-based superiority, the seductive image of Brideshead decadence beloved of the media.
2018 New European (Nexis) 14 Mar. 21 As a student at Oxford University I had a brief flirtation with the romantic Brideshead myth of ‘Englishness’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1961- do you want to make something out of it?
- do your worst
- do —— misters
- do … wrong
- do's
- do, give, lend borrowing
- do, have, make, nim, seek, and esp take wreche
- do, have, nim , ta, or take wrake
- do, have, nim , ta, or take wrake of
- do, have, nim , ta, or take wrake on,
- do, have, nim , ta, or take wrake upon
- do, have, nim = take, ta, or take wrake
- do, have, nim = take, ta, or take wrake of
- do, have, nim = take, ta, or take wrake on,
- do, have, nim = take, ta, or take wrake upon
- do, make one's wise
- do, make sacrifice
- do, make wait
- do, make, etc great spoil
- do, make, etc much spoil
- do, make, etc spoil
- do, make, receive, swear, etc fealty
- do, make, render stead
- do, perform or work the feat
- do, put arrear