Shan|de|an

Shan|de|an
Shan|de|an «SHAN dee uhn», adjective.
of, having to do with, or characteristic of the novel Tristram Shandy, by the English novelist Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), or the Shandy family portrayed in the novel: »

I write a careless kind of a civil, nonsensical, good-humoured Shandean book (Laurence Sterne). He affects a Shandean fabrication of words (Thomas Jefferson).


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