Carolian

English

Adjective

Carolian

1. Alternative form of Carolean
   • 1861, Adam and Charles Black (Firm), Black's Guide to the South-eastern Counties of England: Sussex, page 528:

     Scarcely less interesting, perhaps, are the Carolian relics; — Charles the First's watch, his white silk drawers, the blood-spotted shirt which he wore upon the scaffold, and the sheet […]

   • 1885, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Hand-list of Unique Or Extremely Rare Elizabethan-Jacobean-Carolian Books: Privately Printed in Limited Numbers, page 1:

     [see title]

   • 1904, British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings, H-R, page 195:

     Armorial[:] Carolian arms on a plain shield between palm branches

   • 2021 May 1, Narrelle M Harris, The Only One in the World: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology, Clan Destine Press, →ISBN:

     He had lived long enough among these strangers to know the proprieties, even with Carolian license – King Charles and his courtiers all libertines, as he had heard the Chaplain complain. Surely a judge would not take his mistress on circuit with him?