neo-Georgianadj.n.
/ˌniːə(ʊ)ˈdʒɔːdʒ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈdʒɔrdʒ(ə)n/ A. adj.
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the reign of George V (1910–36). Cf. Georgian adj.3 2a. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1915 Truth 24 Mar. 459/2 Essentially early nineteenth century in character, he was hopelessly out of his element in this neo-Georgian era.
1922 T. Hardy Late Lyrics & Earlier Apol. p. v The launching of a volume of this kind in neo-Georgian days by one who began writing in mid-Victorian, and has published nothing to speak of for some years, may seem to call for a few words of excuse or explanation.
1970 Eng. Stud. 51 270 The insipidly ‘pleasant’ strain which..became a conditioned reflex in the ‘neo-Georgian’ ripplings of the Squire-Turner-Freeman school.
2. Of, designating, or built in a style imitating or based on the characteristic domestic (esp. neoclassical) architecture of the reign of the first four Georges (1714–1830).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > mock-Georgian, -Victorian, or -Renaissance
pseudo-Georgian1905
neo-Georgian1933
Victorianized1946
Victorian-Italianate1963
1933 Archit. Rev. 74 130/2 The Kirkgate and the Briggate..cast off their Georgian glory and assumed the Jacobean,..the Perpendicular and the neo-Georgian, in Leeds phorpres brick and stone and terra-cotta.
1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 44 Outside Bedfont..is the Fairhome Estate,..a nice neo-Georgian group of low-rental houses, one- and two-storeyed with Dutch gables.
1978 Listener 14 Sept. 337/3 The new, spec-built, often neo-Georgian houses.
1995 Independent 13 Mar. 17/1 So why all the fuss about..his massive salary? Maybe it's what he spends it on—a neo-Georgian home with crew-cut lawns.
B. n.
A person, esp. a writer, of the time of George V; one who displays the characteristic style, attitudes, etc., of this period. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary man > of specific place or period
Augustan1818
trecentist1821
seicentoist1830
cinquecentist1871
Victorian1876
Jacobean1885
seicentist1905
Georgian1913
neo-Georgian1923
Jindyworobak1938
wên jên1958
1923 W. Deeping Secret Sanctuary xix. 195 The Jinkses with their drink-philosophy, their blatant motor-bike, their stout insensitiveness, were Neo-Georgians.
1955 J. Betjeman in R. S. Thomas Song at Year's Turning 12 The ‘wain and stook’ pastoral poetry of the neo-Georgians.
1965 R. H. Ross Georgian Revolt, 1910–22 vii. 165 Already by late 1917 their misty escape poetry was an anachronism... Compared to the best of the Georgians the Neo-Georgians were pallid, lifeless, and monotonous.
Derivatives
neo-ˈGeorgianism n.
ΚΠ
1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot 199 The Edwardians were..a brief generation to themselves, set between Victorianism and neo-Georgianism.
1940 Scrutiny 9 289 The ‘simplicity’ of Auden's later manner merges into neo-Georgianism.
2002 Times (Nexis) 11 May It is worth noting Marc Girouard's observation that the earliest essays in Neo-Georgianism were made, in the 1870s, by architectural amateurs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1915