[f. Carol-us Charles.]
1. Of or pertaining to Charles: esp. a. of Charles the Great (Charlemagne); b. of Charles I. and II. of England, or their period.
1652. Needham, trans. Selden’s Mare Cl., 322. This guarding of the Shores under the Caroline Kings was given over a little after the time of Charlemaign.
1805. W. Saunders, Min. Waters, 314. The village of Carlsbad … as well as … the Caroline Waters [named after] the emperor Charles IV. in 1370.
1839. Hallam, Hist. Lit., IV. IV. v. § 22. 234. Waller has a more uniform elegance … than any [other] of the Caroline era.
1874. F. Hall, in N. Amer. Rev., CXIX. 310. Our Caroline divines.
1884. W. J. Courthope, Addison, i. 20. The Caroline dramatists.
† 2. Applied in end of 17th c. to a fashion of hat.
1687. Lond. Gaz., No. 2246/4. 25 black Hats, commonly called Caroline. Ibid. (1695), No. 3119/4. A Young Man, aged about 17 … wears … a Carolina Hat.
