Isabelline
See also: isabelline
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish isabelino. Equivalent to Isabella + -ine.
Adjective edit
Isabelline (not comparable)
- (history) Of or related to Isabella I of Castile (1451–1504).
- (architecture) Of a style of Spanish Gothic architecture that flourished under Isabella I of Castile.
- 2005, Alejandro Lapunzina, Architecture of Spain, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page xlviii:
- 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.