Word Meanings - BELGRAVIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.

• Quarterstaff
  A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.
• LONDONSMOKE
  A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, etc., which reduces the intensity without materially changing the color of the transmitted light.
• Aristocratic
  Alt. of Aristocratical
• QUARTERDECK
  That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. Note: The quarter-deck is reserved as a promenade for the officers and (in passenger vessels) for the cabin passengers.
• Aristocratical
  Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution.
• QUARTERONQUARTEROON
  A quadroon.
• Quarter-deck
  That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.
• QUARTERROUND
  An ovolo.
• Quarterfoil
  An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.
• Quarterhung
  Having trunnions the axes of which lie below the bore; -- said of a cannon.

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