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Chesterfieldian

語源

Chesterfield +‎ -ian

名詞

Chesterfieldian (複数形 Chesterfieldians)

Someone who acts in a sophisticated, aristocratic manner, reminiscent of the fourth Earl of Chesterfield.
- 1905, review of Studies in Montaigne, in The Nation (volume 80, no 2067, Feb 9, 1905) p. 118
  For example, in the chapter on “The Imperial Family," by Baron Sannomiya, this consummate Chesterfieldian, who acts as the court chamberlain, tells us what went on—outside of the imperial family.

形容詞

Chesterfieldian (comparative more Chesterfieldian, superlative most Chesterfieldian)

In the style of the fourth Earl of Chesterfield, marked by brilliance, wit, and elegance in writing, and aristocratic assurance in life
- 1778, Thomas Campbell, "Letter XXXI", A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland: In a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D. p. 291
  What most evidently prevailed, absit invidia, and what betrayed her into all the Chesterfieldian indecorums of laughter, was his addressing her in Irish.
- 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 2, page 311:
  Lady Anne was very angry, both at herself and the Count; nevertheless, his perfect simplicity and sincerity, and the nonchalance with which he spoke, amused her as much as it vexed her; and, as poor Georgiana, after various efforts to subdue her risibility, was constrained to laugh outright, the features of Lady Anne admitted the Chesterfieldian smile, and she exclaimed, "Really, Count, you are the drollest man in the world, and say the oddest things in the world."
- 1891, George Washington Cullum, ‎Edward Singleton Holden, ‎Charles Braden, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., page 617:
  Casting my fortunes at Mrs. Thompson 's, I soon became initiated into the etiquette and usage of that polite caravansary; and I now write of that era of two-pronged forks, and when “saveall” was the choicest dish, and the observances at the table not altogether Chesterfieldian.

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