1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 322 Under the Caroline kings.

1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 314 The village of Carlsbad..as well as..the Caroline Waters [named after] the emperor Charles IV. in 1370.

1849 F. Madden tr. J. J. Champollion & A. Champollion Universal Palæogr. I. cxxix. 346 The text is in clear, well proportioned, Caroline minuscules, with the words not divided, the tails and tops of the letters of proper length, and the strokes of the m and n inclined towards the left; graphic characters which indicate the ninth century, and the kind of writing termed Caroline.

1883 I. Taylor Alphabet II. viii. 181 Owing to its manifold excellencies..the rapidity with which it could be written, the ease with which it could be read, and economy of parchment, the Caroline minuscule, as it is usually called, grew rapidly in favour.

1897 H. W. Johnston Latin MSS. ii. 72 Of the better forms the Caroline (Carolingian) may be regarded as the type, as it finally became the literary hand of all Western Europe.

1957 N. R. Ker Catal. MSS containing Anglo-Saxon p. xxii It should be assumed that..writing dated s. xi or later is caroline minuscule.

1962 D'Ardenne in Davis & Wrenn Eng. & Medieval Studies 85 The manuscript is written in Latin on parchment in a smooth round English form of the caroline minuscule.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. v. 415 Waller has a more uniform elegance..than any [other] of the Caroline era.

1874 F. Hall in N. Amer. Rev. 119 310 Our Caroline divines.

1884 W. J. Courthope Addison i. 20 The Caroline dramatists.