Yahoo: Wedding guest modifies her entire dress in just 48 hours because ‘literally everything is wrong’ with it: ‘It’s giving grecian goddess’
Wedding guest modifies her entire dress in just 48 hours because ‘literally everything is wrong’ with it: ‘It’s giving grecian goddess’
In Modern English, Greek is the usual adjective meaning of or pertaining to Greece. Grecian is an earlier construction, with an adjective-forming -an suffix (American, Norwegian, Virginian), which is now pretty much relegated to stylistic and fixed phrase duty. It's common in the following expressions, among others: Grecian Formula Grecian urn Grecian style or Grecian dress Grecian sandals But ...
Hornblower is only 17 at the time of this exchange, so it must be something pre-university, but I cannot find any more information to suggest what being a Grecian actually meant in the late 18th century in England.
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Without looking up anything either, I'll go ahead and offer the German-y compound textlover and the Grecian graphophile for normal preferences and the Latiny scriptomaniac for people who overdo it.
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Those contortions resembled a pose affected by fashionable people of that time and earlier. The pose was known as the "Grecian Bend" (evidence in print from 1820). The evening world, New York, .