quadricentennial
Americanadjective
noun
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a quadricentennial anniversary.
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its celebration.
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of quadricentennial
First recorded in 1880–85; quadri- + centennial
Example Sentences
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This “Tartuffe” was supposed to launch France’s yearlong celebration of Molière’s quadricentennial in style.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
Obscurity suited Ms. Ingalls, who grew up near Boston, the daughter of a Harvard Sanskrit professor, and found herself drawn to England by the quadricentennial celebrations of Shakespeare’s birth in 1964.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2019
After graduating from Radcliffe, she spent the summer of 1964 in England, to see all the quadricentennial productions of Shakespeare that she could; the next year, she moved there permanently.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
I assumed she got to meet Queen Elizabeth II in 2007 when she visited for another historical marker, the quadricentennial of the first settlers’ arrival.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2014
The most important assemblage of naval vessels ever seen in the waters of America took place in April, 1893, in celebration of the Columbian quadricentennial.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by W. C. Jackson
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