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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Gilbertian

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01 prop. a. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert; as, Gilbertian libretti.
  1. 1.
    Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert; as, Gilbertian libretti.
  2. 2.
    Wildly comic and improbable, as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas; as, Gilbertian coincidences.
    “a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings.” — T. C. Worsley