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beardsleyan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
beard-s-leyan
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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

Etymology

From Beardsley + -an.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more Beardsleyan (comparative) most Beardsleyan (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

Beardsleyesque

Questions

What does beardsleyan mean?
Of or relating to Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), English illustrator and author, whose black-ink drawings emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic.
Where does beardsleyan come from?
From Beardsley + -an.

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