Jacobethan

English

Rutherford House, a Jacobethan house built in Edmonton, Alberta in 1911

Etymology

Blend of Jacobean +‎ Elizabethan, coined by John Betjeman in 1933.

Adjective

Jacobethan (comparative more Jacobethan, superlative most Jacobethan)

1. (often of architecture) Of a style incorporating elements of Elizabethan and Jacobean.
   • 2022 June 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Wonderful waiting rooms on the waiting list”, in RAIL, number 960, page 56:

     In the latter case [Helsby], in 1849, a rock-faced red sandstone waiting space in the Jacobethan style was erected on an island platform for the Birkenhead, Lancashire & Cheshire Junction Railway.

Related terms

• Tudorbethan
• mock Tudor

References

• “Jacobethan”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.