Elizabethan Definition

Elizabethan Sentence Examples

• Around 1600, the Elizabethan Poor Law came into effect and lasted more than two centuries.

• There is an Elizabethan grammar school.

• S., where (in a former mansion) some of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot defied search for eight days (1605); and Westwood, a fine hall of Elizabethan and Carolean date on the site of a Benedictine nunnery, a mile west of Droitwich, which offered a retreat to many Royalist cavaliers and churchmen during the Commonwealth.

• Among several picturesque old houses remaining, that known as the Six Chimneys, an Elizabethan structure, is the most striking.

• Clevedon Court is a remarkable medieval mansion, dating originally from the early part of the 14th century, though much altered in the Elizabethan and other periods.