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Wyatt|ˈwaɪət|
The name of the architect and designer James Wyatt (1746–1813), used attrib. to designate buildings or architectural features designed by him or characteristic of his Gothic Revival style.
1819M. Edgeworth Let. 4 May (1971) 206 A most comfortable sitting room (scarlet cloth and black furniture—Large Wyatt window plate glass—tables most comfortable). 1936A. Dale James Wyatt vi. 32 The Wyatt window, a tripartite aperture similar to the Venetian window. 1962House & Garden Dec. 63/2 Sienna marble columns (..from a Wyatt house in Somerset). 1973Country Life 18 Jan. 152/3 It is unusual for a Philadelphia house... There is a vaguely Wyatt feeling about the whole concept.
Hence Wyaˈttesque, ˈWyattish adjs.
1942J. Lees-Milne Jrnl. 18 Jan. in Ancestral Voices (1975) 10 A terrible house.., with only a vestige of the eighteenth century in the central stairwell, where there is a trace of Wyattesque or Adamesque treatment, a frieze with ram's skulls. 1946― Diary 23 Nov. (1983) 108, I found the stairwell actually more Wyattish than Adamatic. 1973Country Life 20 Sept. 776/3 Wyattesque decoration. |