English

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Etymology

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From Thackeray +‎ -an.

Adjective

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Thackerayan (comparative more Thackerayan, superlative most Thackerayan)

  1. Of or pertaining to William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), English novelist and satirist.
    • 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
      What she already knew, moreover, was full to her vision, of English, of eccentric, of Thackerayan character, Kate Croy having gradually become not a little explicit on the subject of her situation, her past, her present, her general predicament, her small success, up to the present hour, in contenting at the same time her father, her sister, her aunt and herself.