Definition of "Brideshead"

In many ways it is easier to penetrate the English elite if one hails from rural Wyoming than from cockney Cheapside. Many of the most "Brideshead" characters I met in Cambridge, for example, actually came from abroad. There was the German lawyer in my course who wore a different-colored paisley ascot every day of the week.

1989, Macmillan Publishing Company, Virginia A. Arnold, Carl Bernard Smith, Connections: Macmillan reading program: grade 2, page 207

Every staircase had its earl or an honourable, there was even a maharajah floating about the place. It was still very Brideshead but Johnnie never let such things stop him.

2013, Michael Dobbs, A Ghost at the Door