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Meaning of JACOBEAN

Pronunciation:  `jaku'beeun

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  any distinguished personage during the reign of James I of England
  2. [adj]  of or relating to James I or his reign or times; "Jacobean writers"
 
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ja*co"be*an\ (?; 277), Jacobian \Ja*co"bi*an\, a.
[From L. Jacobus James. See 2d {Jack}.]
Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in
the time of James the First, of England. ``A Jacobean
table.'' --C. L. Eastlake.
 

 

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