Chaucerian

[ chaw-seer-ee-uh n ]

/ tʃɔˈsɪər i ən /

of, relating to, or characteristic of Chaucer's writings: Chaucerian wit.

a scholar devoted to the study of Chaucer and his writings.

Origin of Chaucerian

First recorded in 1650–60; Chaucer + -ian

non-Chau·ce·ri·an, adjective, noun post-Chau·ce·ri·an, adjective pre-Chau·ce·ri·an, adjective

Chaucerian and other Pieces, being a Supplementary Volume to the above.

Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) |Geoffrey Chaucer
Even here, however, the piece still keeps the Chaucerian form and manner, and is only a kind of exercise.

A History of English Literature |George Saintsbury
Chaucerian scholars say that the Wife of Bath talked what we would call Irish dialect.

The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces |Joyce Kilmer
These are plain manly compositions in the seven-lined Chaucerian stanza.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 |Various

Here is no affectation of Chaucerian words; the gold is not spotted with rust.

Amenities of Literature |Isaac Disraeli

Chaucerian

/ (tʃɔːˈsɪərɪən) /

of, relating to, or characteristic of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer

an imitator of Chaucer, esp one of a group of 15th-century Scottish writers who took him as a model