noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in England in the early 18th century, characterized by simplicity and refinement of forms, with increasing attention to French and Italian models.
noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in England from c1865 to c1885, imitated in the U.S. from c1875 to c1890, characterized by imitation of English vernacular work of the middle and late 17th century, often with an eclectic mixture of medieval, 18th-century, and Japanese motifs.
in or of this style
denoting or relating to a style of architecture popular in England during the early 18th century, characterized by red-brick construction with classical ornamentation
First recorded in 1765–75
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These tensions became critical during the reign of the childless Queen Anne, from 1702 to 1714.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
In fact, he owned a San Francisco Queen Anne Victorian, which he picked up in 1989 and held for 16 years.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
The report, requested by the Church's financing arm - the Church Commissioners - found that a fund established by Queen Anne in 1704 to help poor Anglican clergy was used to finance "great evil".
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
Some of the Victorian and Queen Anne homes are fixed up, some are boarded up, and most have front porches where people gather.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
Mother dozes in her blue Queen Anne chair, her green blanket pulled to her chest.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
During his life he is said to have refused two offers of five hundred thousand dollars for the pictures in his Queen-Anne Street house.
From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton
For some distance from the porch of the red-brick, creeper-covered Queen-Anne house the gravel drive between the lawns blazed in the afternoon sun.
From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke
Or perhaps I could be housekeeper for one of our new beef-kings in his new Queen-Anne Norman-Georgian Venetian palace of Alberta sandstone with tesselated towers and bungalow sleeping-porches.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
Among them is a quaint old Queen-Anne mansion of brick, with a curious pediment and having many windows.
From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook
A cannon explodes below him, a comet is seen above; and in his right hand, notwithstanding his cuirass and voluminous Queen-Anne peruke, he brandishes the thunderbolt of Jupiter.
From Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton
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