Grecian

[ gree-shuh n ]

/ ˈgri ʃən /

Greek (especially with reference to ancient Greece).

a Greek.

an expert in the Greek language or Greek literature.

Origin of Grecian

1540–50; < Latin Graeci(a) Greece + -an

pro-Gre·cian, adjective pseu·do-Gre·cian, adjective qua·si-Gre·cian, adjective

It looks like a futuristic chaise longue, and is almost Grecian in its blinding-white color.

Inside North America’s First Islamic Art Museum |Shinan Govani |September 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
At her Palm Springs wedding to Dina in 2012, she wore a Cymbeline dress that looked more like a Grecian slip.

Flower Crowns Are Phony and Must Die |Sara Lieberman |September 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Reasons for my Gingrich blues No lunar dreams or Grecian cruise No credit line from Tiffany's No saintly wife, his former squeeze.

The Song of Newt Gingrich: From Longshot To Hotshot To No Shot | |April 26, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
She was a singular beauty, Swedish looking and blond with an unusual profile—a very Grecian profile.

Picasso's Greatest Muse |Paul Laster |April 15, 2011 |DAILY BEAST

She moved into the Borghese Palace in Rome and swanned about in transparent-ish frocks striking Grecian attitudes.

Pauline Bonaparte: Dead Cool |Simon Doonan |November 30, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
The maintenance of the laws was, as in other Grecian cities, committed to the nomophylaces.

A Manual of Ancient History |A. H. L. (Arnold Hermann Ludwig) Heeren
She received him with an air of mystic calm, gracious and dignified as the high-priestess of a Grecian temple.

King--of the Khyber Rifles |Talbot Mundy
At the highest period of Grecian genius, the tragic and the comic poets introduced into their dramas the proverbial style.

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) |Isaac Disraeli
Grafted on a Grecian stock, every shoot bore Grecian fruit: and what was borrowed from mechanism was reproduced in beauty 184.

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete |Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Three hours passed as quietly as the wool-clad footsteps of the Grecian Fate.

Overland |John William De Forest

Grecian

/ (ˈɡriːʃən) /

(esp of beauty or architecture) conforming to Greek ideals, esp in being classically simple

a scholar of or expert in the Greek language or literature

another word for Greek