Chaucerian
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of Chaucer's writings.
pre-Chaucerian
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a word derived from
Chaucerian.
Example Sentences
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What next, he wondered: pre-Newtonian science perhaps, or pre-Chaucerian verse?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010
Our highlander often speaks in Elizabethan or Chaucerian or even pre-Chaucerian terms.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
To this pre-Chaucerian period belong also several English translations of French romances—Horn, Tristrem, Alisaunder, Havelok, and others.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
