Isabelline
See also: isabelline
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish isabelino. Equivalent to Isabella + -ine.
Adjective
editIsabelline (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.