[
US
/ˌdʒækəˈbiən/
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ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to James I or his reign or times
Jacobean writers
NOUN
- any distinguished personage during the reign of James I
How To Use Jacobean In A Sentence
- Jacobean plays always end with bad deeds punished. Times, Sunday Times
- This is Jacobean comedy at its documentary best: a salty, vivid report on the eternal clash between the puritan ethic and spendthrift snobbery.
- Hatfield House is a fine example of Jacobean architecture.
- We three girls sat on very uncomfortable upright chairs around the mock-Jacobean dining table.
- He had studied to advantage the Elizabethan and Jacobean masters of the string fantasy.
- Natalie Angier weighs in on the human proclivity for cursing in a lengthy essay in the NYT: "The Jacobean dramatist Ben Jonson peppered his plays with fackings and "peremptorie Asses," and Shakespeare could hardly quill a stanza without inserting profanities of the day like "zounds" or "sblood Science Project
- Hatfield House is a fine example of Jacobean architecture.
- There were many magnificent pieces at Tresillian, but mostly heavy items of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
- The Jacobean manor house is crumbling rapidly having lost its roof and now even its walls are in danger of falling.
- an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas
