Carolian

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A form of Carolean — Pertaining to a person named Charles or its variants and cognates; or places, things, or eras so named.

Scrabble 10

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adjective
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Carolean.

    [see title]

    1885, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Hand-list of Unique Or Extremely Rare Elizabethan-Jacobean-Carolian Books: Privately Printed in Limited Numbers, page 1
    3 more examples

    Scarcely less interesting, perhaps, are the Carolian relics; — Charles the First's watch, his white silk drawers, the blood-spotted shirt which he wore upon the scaffold, and the sheet[…]

    1861, Adam and Charles Black (Firm), Black's Guide to the South-eastern Counties of England: Sussex, page 528

    Armorial[:] Carolian arms on a plain shield between palm branches

    1904, British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings, H-R, page 195

    He had lived long enough among these strangers to know the proprieties, even with Carolian license – King Charles and his courtiers all libertines, as he had heard the Chaplain complain. Surely a judge would not take his mistress on circuit with him?

    2021 May 1, Narrelle M Harris, The Only One in the World: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology, Clan Destine Press, →ISBN

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APA

Carolian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Carolian

MLA

“Carolian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Carolian. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Carolian,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Carolian.

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