Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—E

Elizabethan

After the style of things in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Elizabethan architecture is a mixture of Gothic and Italian, prevalent in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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