Caroleans

Noun (1)

Carolean (plural Caroleans)

1. A contemporary of King Charles I, II, or III.
   • William Cartwright, an elegant minor poet, and one who was to the Caroleans what Tennyson was to the Victorians, is as good an index to the transitional period between poetry and verse as any in the century.1918, The Nation, volume 23, page 425

Noun (2)

Carolean (plural Caroleans)

1. (historical) A soldier (or war veteran) of the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII.
   • More than three thousand Caroleans froze to death up here in the winter of 1718–19. We still find their remains sometimes.2016, Marlaine Delargy, transl., The Man Who Wasn't There, Random House, translation of original by Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt, →ISBN

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