RURITANIAN


Meaning of RURITANIAN in English

|ru̇rə|tānēən adjective

Usage: usually capitalized

Etymology: Ruritania, fictional kingdom in the romantic novel The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope (Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins) died 1933 English writer + English -an

: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an imaginary place of high romance

indulged in a sort of Ruritanian flirtation with the Queen — H.G.Wells

a Ruritanian existence — sumptuously gay, flitting, free of earnest obligations, infused with a fierce devotion to royalty — Times Literary Supplement

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