Shandean
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Of or relating to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, a novel by Laurence Sterne.
"It was commenced when the author was in a Shandean fever, and burned to outstrip Sterne. Without any disguise as to who his model was he opened his vapid tale with a scene in which Yorick's manner was broadly caricatured, but which […]"
Example
More examples"It was commenced when the author was in a Shandean fever, and burned to outstrip Sterne. Without any disguise as to who his model was he opened his vapid tale with a scene in which Yorick's manner was broadly caricatured, but which […]"
Etymology
From Shandy + -an.
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