Associations to the word «Gilbertian»

Wiktionary

GILBERTIAN, adjective. Pertaining to, or in the style of the dramatist and librettist W. S. Gilbert; ludicrously comic

Dictionary definition

GILBERTIAN, adjective. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert; "Gilbertian libretti".
GILBERTIAN, adjective. Wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas; "a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings"- T.C.Worsley.

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