[a. Fr. alexandrin, ad. L. alexandrīnus, f. Alexandrīa prop. name.] Of or belonging to Alexandria; esp. a kind of embroidery named from that town.
a. 1500[?]. MS. Rawlinson, C. 86, 121 (Halliw.). A mauntelle of hermyn Coverid … with Alexandryn.
1605. Timme, Quersit., III. 178. Take … of the treacle Alexandrine 2 ounces.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., II. xli. 535. Plato and the Alexandrine philosophers.
