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- adjective Of or pertaining to Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), Irish-born English novelist.
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Sterne + -an
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In some of his effects Borrow reproduces Sterne: essentially Sternean, for instance, is the interview between the youthful author and the experienced Mr. Taggart.
Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842
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