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Pride and Prejudice - Regency Words/Unit Terms

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These are flash cards to help learn some regency period words.
 
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1. What is a Bluestocking? A lady interested in learning, books and...   11. What is an Ape-leader? An old spinster lady.
2. What is an  epistolary novel? A novel written as a series of letters.   12. What is a satire?  A work of literature to expose human or institutional...
3. What is a landed-gentry? The group of people in Regency England who...   13. What is the Regency Era?  A period in England between about 1800-1820,...
4. What is primogeniture? A system of inheritance in which all property...   14. What is entailment? A legal arrangement which stated that an...
5. What is a parody? literature that takes on the form of what...   15. What is Horatian Satire?   Satires that is cheerful, gentle, and characterized...
6. What is an assembly room? Halls where dances, concerts and other social...   16. What is a barouche?  type of carriage with four  wheels, a...
7. What is blunt? Money.   17. What is to "set ones cap" mean? Try to catch a sweetheart or a husband.  A...
8. What is a chit? A saucy , forward girl.   18. What is a coming out? A young lady's first entry into society....
9. What is a cravat? A gentleman's neckcloth made of starched...   19. What is "in ones cup" mean? Inebriated, drunk
10. What is a Dowager? A term used to refer to the widow of a peer....   20. What is Gammon? Nonsense, humbug (noun). To deceive, to...
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