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Beardsleyan

Beardsleyan adjective: of or relating to Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), English illustrator and author, whose black-ink drawings emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic.

Adjective

Beardsleyan (comparative more Beardsleyan, superlative most Beardsleyan)

  1. Of or relating to Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), English illustrator and author, whose black-ink drawings emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic.

Forms of Beardsleyan

comparativemore Beardsleyan
superlativemost Beardsleyan

Origin of Beardsleyan

From Beardsley + -an.

Questions about Beardsleyan

What does Beardsleyan mean?
Beardsleyan means of or relating to Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), English illustrator and author, whose black-ink drawings emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic.
What part of speech is Beardsleyan?
Beardsleyan is an adjective.

Words near Beardsleyan in the dictionary

  1. Beardsells
  2. Beardslee
  3. Beardslee trout
  4. Beardslees
  5. Beardsley
  6. Beardsleyan
  7. Beardsleyesque
  8. Beardsleys
  9. Beardsworth
  10. Beardsworths
  11. beardtongue

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