isabelline
/ɪzəˈbɛlɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or related to Isabella I of Castile (1451–1504).
adj
Of a style of Spanish Gothic architecture that flourished under Isabella I of Castile.
Example Sentences
- "The isabelline (or Daurian) shrike is a greyish-yellow and hunts from prominent perches, impaling the corpses on thorns as a larder."
- "As Mr. Tristram has remarked, in regard to the inhabitants of the Sahara, all are protected by their “isabelline or sand-colour.”"
- "Isabelline -us: pale yellow with some red and brown [chronic lemon with a little carmine and roman sepia]."
- "A little later the focus shifted to Valladolid and became increasingly florid—the Isabelline style—reaching its most extreme in the facades of San Pablo and the Colegio San Gregorio."
- "The salient characteristics of Isabelline architecture include the use of extravagant formal elements such as helicoidal columns and mixtilinear arches with complete disregard of their tectonic or constructive function in the building, and profuse display of high-relief ornamentation in stone, especially heraldic symbols."
Etymology
From isabella + -ine.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more isabelline (comparative)
most isabelline (superlative)