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The Regency Period Glossary

This glossary is added to regulary and attempts to provide you with a better understanding of the times that Jane Austen lived in and wrote about. These are selected words from her works that we think might help the newcomer in understanding the difference between cribbage and barouche.

 

A

amiable
assembly room

B

barrister
barouche
bonnet

C

chaise
clergy
coach
commerce
commodious
cottage
countenance

cribbage

D detestable
E

epistolary novel
endowment
engagement
entail

F
G gentry
gig
governess
H handsome
I introductions
J

Janeite
Juvenilia

K knee breeches
L landau
M

militia
minuet

N

nobility
Northamptonshire

O
P

parasol
parsonage

peliss
piano forte
pounds
primogeniture

Q quadrille
R Ramsgate
reticule
S

spencer
solicitor

T twelvemonth
U Upper Rooms
V vexing
W

West Indies
Westminster
wetnurse
whist

X
Y
Z
   
   
 

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