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Queen Anne (iou)



Queen Anne noun phr. [kwi:n 'an] E19.
[Queen of Great Britain and Ireland who reigned from 1702 to 1714.]
Used attrib. and in possess. to designate things associated with Queen Anne or her reign; spec. (attrib.) designating furniture, architecture, etc., characteristic of the early 18th cent.
Queen Anne's bounty: see BOUNTY 4. Queen Anne's daffodil, Queen Anne's double daffodil a creamy-yellow double form of daffodil, with perianth segments in six whorls. Queen Anne's jonquil a double-flowered variety of the jonquil, Narcissus jonquilla. Queen Anne's lace any of several umbelliferous plants bearing lacy clusters of small white flowers, esp. cow parsley and (N. Amer.) wild carrot, Daucus carota.
Queen Anneish, Queen Annish adjective (of furniture or architecture) suggestive of or designed in a Queen Anne style E20.