Brideshead

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English

Etymology

In reference to Brideshead Revisited, a 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh.

Adjective

Brideshead (comparative more Brideshead, superlative most Brideshead)

  1. Suggestive of the traditional English upper classes.
    Synonym: Bridesheadian
    • 1989, Macmillan Publishing Company, Virginia A. Arnold, Carl Bernard Smith, Connections: Macmillan reading program: grade 2, page 207:
      In many ways it is easier to penetrate the English elite if one hails from rural Wyoming than from cockney Cheapside. Many of the most "Brideshead" characters I met in Cambridge, for example, actually came from abroad. There was the German lawyer in my course who wore a different-colored paisley ascot every day of the week.
    • 2013, Michael Dobbs, A Ghost at the Door:
      Every staircase had its earl or an honourable, there was even a maharajah floating about the place. It was still very Brideshead but Johnnie never let such things stop him.