balmorality

Noun capitalized: Balmorality

Balmorality (countable and uncountable, plural Balmoralities)

1. A superficial idealization of Scottish culture, especially the popularity engendered by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's enthusiasm for Scotland.
   • The most obvious way is to buy a home in the country, or at the very least to know how to behave during a weekend in the country; and in order to play thepart, to get kitted out in green wellies, jackets, thick-soled shoes and Viyella shirts, all in a fawning copy of the Balmorality of the modern...1991, John R. Short, Imagined Country: Environment, Culture, and Society, →ISBN, page 74
   • Barring the castle-building and Bayreuth fantasies of the mad Ludwig in Bavaria, there is nothing like it, and Balmorality has had a longer and more profound impact than the architectural dreamings of Wagner's patron, now emptied of their Wittelsbach inhabitants.2000, Ian Mitchell, On the Trail of Queen Victoria in the Highlands, →ISBN, page xxvi
2. An act inspired by Balmorality.
   • What has come over them all ? Is this a bad day with the Balmoralities ?1888, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 95, page 149