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Chaucerian /tʃɔːˈsɪərɪən/adjectiveRelating to or characteristic of the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer or his works: ribald Chaucerian pilgrimages...- The mock-heroic story is full of rhetoric and exempla, and it is regarded as the most typically Chaucerian in tone and content.
- Of his more readable poems, most were written in the first decade of the 15th cent. in a Chaucerian vein.
- I've sent some 30 copies of my Chaucer piece to editors, literary men, Chaucerian scholars.
nounAn admirer, imitator, or student of the works of the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer: every English department wants a Chaucerian...- Some early Chaucerians sought to match each Canterbury pilgrim with an historically identifiable person.
- They overlapped with the Cambridge years of another noted Chaucerian, Edmund Spenser.
- The boys of the group embraced the assignment a little too enthusiastically, shouting the carols like tankard-hoisting Chaucerians rather than singing them.
RhymesAlgerian, Cancerian, Cimmerian, criterion, Hesperian, Hitlerian, Hyperion, Iberian, Liberian, Nigerian, Presbyterian, Shakespearean, Siberian, Spenserian, Sumerian, valerian, Wagnerian, Zairean |