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jacobean
/ˌdʒækəˈbiən/
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What does jacobean mean?
adjective
- Relating to a Jacob or James.
noun
- A partisan of James I and of the House of Stuart.
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adjective
- (historical) Relating to or characteristic of the reign of James VI and I (of Scotland and England, 1567–1625).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌdʒækəˈbiən/
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It was not, if the Rabelaisian trend in so much of Jacobean writing be any indication, a particularly moral age.
The mantelpiece was of the same heavy description, carved with Jacobean pilasters and scroll-work.
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When they were together the Jacobean and the Victorian ages were juxtaposed.
But you must think of that lonely death in the tawdry dressing-room simply as a strange lurid fragment from some Jacobean tragedy, as a wonderful scene from Webster, or Ford, or Cyril Tourneur.