Stuart

plural Stuarts · alternative historical Stewart

1. countableuncountableA Scottish surname originating as an occupation, a variant of Stewart.
2. alternativecountablehistoricaluncountableAlternative spelling of Stewart (“royal house regnant in Scotland from 1371 and in England from 1603, until 1714”) adopted in the mid-16th century by French-raised Mary, Queen of Scots, who had also been Queen of France.
3. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname.
4. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Martin County, Florida.
   2. countableuncountableA city in Lincoln Township, Adair County and Stuart Township, Guthrie County, Iowa.
   3. countableuncountableA township and village therein, in Holt County, Nebraska.
   4. countableuncountableA town in Hughes County, Oklahoma.
   5. countableuncountableA town, the county seat of Patrick County, Virginia.
   6. countableuncountableA coastal suburb in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
   7. countableuncountableA locality in Mid Murray council area, South Australia.

plural Stuarts · alternative historical Stewart

1. A monarch or other member of the British royal family during the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, from the reign of James VI and I to Anne.
   1. often spelled StewartA monarch or other member of the Scottish royal family from 1371 to 1603.
2. Anyone who lived in the Stuart era of Great Britain.

   The Stuarts wore long hair; and, during the civil wars of Charles the First, the fashion of wearing the hair was as distinctive a mark of the adverse parties of Cavaliers and Roundheads as the red and white roses were of the houses[…]

   1846, The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, page 612

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   The Stuarts ate all manner of things that many today would find unappetising. Pigeon pie would have been made with pigeon meat, and cock ale was made by stewing a chicken in fermenting beer to create a beverage that was believed to be most nourishing.

   2015 September 15, Andrea Zuvich, The Stuarts in 100 Facts, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 17

comparative more Stuart · superlative most Stuart · alternative historical Stewart

1. From or typical of the era between 1603 and 1714 when the House of Stuart ruled Great Britain, not always including the Interregnum from 1649 to 1660 when the Stuarts were exiled.

   Stuart dress, like other fashionable styles, was not static.

   2020 March 3, Maria Hayward, Stuart Style: Monarchy, Dress and the Scottish Male Elite, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 16