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Elizabethan


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.
  • (n.) One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) My older sister had the improving Young Elizabethan magazine, with earnest articles on Edmund Hillary climbing Mount Everest.
  • (2) Among the buyers was England striker Michael Owen, who spent £1.6m on the Elizabethan Grade II-listed Lower Soughton Hall in North Wales.
  • (3) The chapter on the Tudors and the Stuarts requires readers understand "how and why religion changed during this period; the importance of poetry and drama in the Elizabethan period; the involvement of Britain in Ireland; the development of parliament and the only period in history when England was a republic; why there was a restoration of the monarchy; how the Glorious Revolution happened."
  • (4) Fleas were placed on cats that were declawed, fitted with Elizabethan collars and housed in specially designed metabolic cages.
  • (5) Beams, exposed brick, lots of dark wood – everything you might expect in an Elizabethan inn – plus some things you wouldn't.
  • (6) Two quotations from Elizabethan playwrights are relevant to the theme of this paper: 'Beware you do not conjure up a spirit you cannot lay' Ben Johnson, The New Inn (Act III, Scene ii) 'Farewell the tranquil mind: farewell content.'
  • (7) In 1968, Roger Deakin bought the ruined remains of an Elizabethan house, and 12 acres of surrounding meadow, on the edge of Mellis Common in Suffolk.
  • (8) The first, in the grounds of one of Britain's greatest Elizabethan mansions, gave him a sense of history and the power of wealth.
  • (9) From the ex-bishop to the chief executive of Mumsnet, from the TaxPayers' Alliance to Amnesty International, from the joint select committee on human rights, through the … well, all the relevant committees, they rose as one, channelling the outrage of Joan of Arc through the baffled derision of (Elizabethan era) Blackadder .
  • (10) But then, few would have once thought giant Elizabethan ballgowns and hot-pink hair were what a female hip-hop artist should wear, yet I have seen Nicki Minaj doing precisely that, so fashion codes are a flexible affair in the crazy hazy world of hip-hop.
  • (11) It might be tricky to limit your time at this Elizabethan mansion, with its parkland sculpture trails, wonderful herbaceous borders and a prize-winning produce garden.
  • (12) The patron saint of the British Industrial Revolution was Francis Bacon, the great Elizabethan philosopher and crusading apostle for science.
  • (13) A history play about history yet to be made, Bartlett’s script imagines a post-Elizabethan world in which the accession of Prince Charles thrusts the UK into social and political chaos.
  • (14) Those of us who are nearly her age can remember the Queen’s ascension to the throne and the cheerful delight with which people talked of the “New Elizabethan age”.
  • (15) Elizabethan tapestry map to be displayed at University of Oxford's Bodleian library Read more The musical angel was once part of a cope – a ceremonial priestly cloak – which became an altar cloth for the small parish church of Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire.
  • (16) It’s an architectural mix-up of Elizabethan, Jacobean and William & Mary.
  • (17) We may also be out of the EU and, if so, Scotland will be gone too, the Queen’s realm diminished physically, morally, socially and culturally from those Young Elizabethan ideals.
  • (18) His Elizabethan comedy Sweet William (2005) for Rutter was a tremendous knees-up set in the Boar's Head, following "wee Willy Shaggers of Stratford town".
  • (19) Elizabethan English changed and became immensely rich by borrowing from other languages and by inventing words continuously.
  • (20) The former Elizabethan history doctoral student speaks about Europe with an enthusiasm rarely heard on the Tory benches.

Groundling


Definition:

  • (n.) A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
  • (n.) A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shakespeare definitely knew how to keep the groundlings happy – that's something we all strive for as writers.
  • (2) While actorly logorrhea flows into the outstretched mics of the presenters – the usual effluvia of "gifts", "blessings", "journeys", "privileges" and "honours" – my fellow groundlings turned their attention to their McDonald's and Doritos instead.
  • (3) From the outset, reviewers were nonplussed by this new-old space, especially the tendency for its groundlings (standing audience members) to exercise a form of mob rule.
  • (4) Williams said the jig is not an exhibition of dance skills, not a take-a-bow presentation, give ’em ye olde razzle-dazzle, but the actors’ generous sharing of the play experience with the audience, especially the Globe’s crowd of groundlings who have stood still throughout.
  • (5) For a moment, as he gathered up his possessions and rejoined the groundlings wondering if they will ring in the new year never mind Christmas at the airport, Michael's zen-like calm almost shattered.

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