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   regency

   /ˈriːdʒ(ə)nsi/

   noun

   • 1. the office of or period of government by a regent: "the boy being a minor, there would have to be a regency"
   • ▪ a commission acting as regent.
   • ▪ the particular period of a regency, especially (in Britain) from 1811 to 1820 and (in France) from 1715 to 1723: "the hugely popular Gothic novels of the Regency"

   adjective

   • 1. relating to or denoting British architecture, clothing, and furniture of the Regency or, more widely, of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Regency style was contemporary with the Empire style and shares many of its features: elaborate and ornate, it is generally neoclassical, with a generous borrowing of Greek and Egyptian motifs.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from medieval Latin regentia, from Latin regent- ‘ruling’ (see regent).

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