Grandisonian

Grandison is a comical rather than a courtly figure to this generation; and the man whose manners may be described as Grandisonian is usually called

Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" George William Curtis 1858

At Niagara I finally took leave of the Walrences, as I had many visits to pay, and near midnight left for Hamilton, under the escort of a very kind, but very Grandisonian Scotch gentleman.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Grandisonian airs marked with a suspicion of fatuity.

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

The Grandisonian manners are not to be taken as a picture of contemporary fashion.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

[356] Not in the Grandisonian sense, thank heaven!

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

The hero is the son of Henry II. and Fair Rosamond, but his speech is Grandisonian.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

At Niagara I finally took leave of the Walrences, as I had many visits to pay, and near midnight left for Hamilton, under the escort of a very kind, but very Grandisonian Scotch gentleman.

The Englishwoman in America 1867

If in the Grandisonian day the morals were wanting, it was something to have the manners.

Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" George William Curtis 1858

They are undeniably different, and the later figure is wholly free from Grandisonian elegance and elaboration.

Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" George William Curtis 1858

It does not argue a decline of courtesy that the Grandisonian compliment and the ineffable bending over a lady's hand and respectful kissing of the finger-tips have yielded to a simpler and less stately manner.

Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" George William Curtis 1858