Byronic

comparative more Byronic · superlative most Byronic

1. Of or pertaining to British Romantic poet George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) or his writings.

   You have your lovers - dusky beaus / Not made of the poetic stuff / That sports an Apollonian nose, / And wears a sleek Byronic cuff.

   1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24

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   This 34 letter word [supercaliflawjalisticexpialadoshus] is not to be found in the dictionary. Perhaps that is because Noah [Webster] couldn’t take time off from Byronic English themes to think up such a conglammeration.

   1931 March 10, Helen Herman, “A-muse-ings”, in Syracuse Daily Orange, Syracuse, N.Y.: The Daily Orange Corporation [for the students of Syracuse University], →OCLC

   Synonyms: Byronesque, Byronian, Byronish