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Carolean, a. and n.|kærəˈliːən| [f. L. Carolus Charles + -ean as in Jacobean a. (n.).] A. adj. = Caroline a. 1 b. B. n. One who lived in the reign of Charles I or II.
1911Chambers's Jrnl. 15 July 513/1 The rapacity and meanness of the Ministers in the Carolean era. 1927Observer 8 May 15/2 The spirit that animated the restored Caroleans in their exhumatory operations against the regicides. 1927Daily Tel. 12 July 5/5 A Carolean Poet [sc. Marvell]. 1939Archit. Rev. LXXXV. 58/1 This seeming late 18th century window is in strange company, surrounded as it is by what appear the familiar swags of essentially Carolean aspect. |