Queen Anne
English
Etymology
After Queen Anne of Great Britain (reigned 1702–1714).
Proper noun
- Queen Anne of Great Britain (reigned 1702–1714).
- (often attributive) The style of architecture, furniture, etc. popular during the reign of Queen Anne.
- We inherited our Queen Anne chairs from my wife's family.
- 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 154:
- That mood of reverie appeared to dispense with physical unrests in Rita's strong body, relaxed in her Queen Anne armchair, but possibly those were a little used up in the day's activities, which were strenuous in this period of building up her stock, both as a necessity to her business and as evidence to refute an accusation of dealing only in Mrs Dibble's assets.
- A small town in Maryland, United States.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Queen Anne”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Queen Anne”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Queen Anne”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “Queen Anne”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Queen Anne”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.