adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonbaronial adjective
Etymology
Origin of baronial
Example Sentences
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Frederick Douglass depicted his plantation in Maryland as resembling “what the baronial domains were during the Middle Ages in Europe.”
From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024
The property was built more than 170 years ago in a Scottish baronial style, a type of elaborate architecture featuring complex rooflines with turrets and fortress-like battlements.
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2024
The focal point was the baronial great hall, two stories in height and an essentially Renaissance Revival setting, with a towering stained-glass window of a peacock in a garden by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023
Finished in 1856, the castle was built in granite in the Scottish baronial revival style, and it features two wings with towers and turrets.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022
He lived out there, eight miles from any neighbor, in masculine solitude in what might be called the halfacre gunroom of a baronial splendor.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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