Brideshead

English Etymology In reference to Brideshead Revisited, a 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh. Adjective Suggestive of the traditional English upper classes. en Bridesheadian en 1989 Macmillan Publishing Company; Virginia A. Arnold; Carl Bernard Smith Connections: Macmillan reading program: grade 2 207 In many ways it is easier to penetrate the English elite if one hails from rural Wyoming than from cockney Cheapside. Many of the most "Brideshead" characters I met in Cambridge, for example, actually came from abroad. There was the German lawyer in my course who wore a different-colored paisley ascot every day of the week. en 2013 Michael Dobbs A Ghost at the Door Every staircase had its earl or an honourable, there was even a maharajah floating about the place. It was still very Brideshead but Johnnie never let such things stop him.