Jacobethan

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English

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Rutherford House, a Jacobethan house built in Edmonton, Alberta in 1911

Etymology

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Blend of Jacobean +‎ Elizabethan, coined by John Betjeman in 1933.

Adjective

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Jacobethan (comparative more Jacobethan, superlative most Jacobethan)

  1. (often of architecture) Of a style incorporating elements of Elizabethan and Jacobean.
    • 2022 June 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Wonderful waiting rooms on the waiting list”, in RAIL, number 960, page 56:
      In the latter case [Helsby], in 1849, a rock-faced red sandstone waiting space in the Jacobethan style was erected on an island platform for the Birkenhead, Lancashire & Cheshire Junction Railway.
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