barristerial

comparative more barristerial · superlative most barristerial

1. Of or relating to barristers.

   Some were leaning against the window-frame with their barristerial feet up on the sill, others talking to short wiry monastic-looking men, the whole of which represented an eminent counsel receiving "instructions" from a local agent.

   1866, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, “The Second Mrs. Tillotson”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, volume 15, page 123

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   This rush for finer barristerial plumage accompanies the rekindling monarchist sentiment under the Abbott government, which gives the cringeworthy impression that Australia is still a branch of little England, full of 10 pound poms and God Save the Queen.

   2015 September 8, Richard Ackland, “The Australian bar is going backwards. Shouldn't there be more women silks?”, in The Guardian