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-esque
(gcide) | -esque \-esque\ [F., fr. It. -isco. Cf. -ish.]
A suffix of certain words from the French, Italian, and
Spanish. It denotes manner or style; like; as, arabesque,
after the manner of the Arabs.
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romanesque
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Alhambresque
(gcide) | Alhambraic \Al`ham*bra"ic\, Alhambresque \Al`ham*bresque"\ (?;
277), a.
Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the
ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually
fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.
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Arabesque
(gcide) | Arabesque \Ar`a*besque"\, a.
1. Arabian. [Obs.]
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2. Relating to, or exhibiting, the style of ornament called
arabesque; as, arabesque frescoes.
[1913 Webster]Arabesque \Ar`a*besque"\, n. [F. arabesque, fr. It. arabesco,
fr. Arabo Arab.]
A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in
low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits,
foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or
imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.
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Note: It was employed in Roman imperial ornamentation, and
appeared, without the animal figures, in Moorish and
Arabic decorative art. (See Moresque.) The arabesques
of the Renaissance were founded on Greco-Roman work.
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Arabesqued
(gcide) | Arabesqued \Ar`a*besqued"\, a.
Ornamented in the style of arabesques.
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arboresque
(gcide) | arboresque \arboresque\ adj.
1. resembling a tree in form and branching structure.
Syn: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboriform,
dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped.
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Audenesque
(gcide) | Audenesque \Audenesque\ adj.
1. of or pertaining to W. H. Auden.
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Barbaresque
(gcide) | Barbaresque \Bar`ba*resque"\, a.
Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture. --De
Quincey.
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Blottesque
(gcide) | Blottesque \Blot*tesque"\ (bl[o^]t*t[e^]sk"), a. (Painting)
Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted;
wanting in delineation. --Ruskin.
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Burlesque
(gcide) | Burlesque \Bur*lesque"\, a. [F. burlesque, fr. It. burlesco, fr.
burla jest, mockery, perh. for burrula, dim. of L. burrae
trifles. See Bur.]
Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images,
or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of
treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock
gravity; jocular; ironical.
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It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque
poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the
Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]Burlesque \Bur*lesque"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burlesqued; p.
pr. & vb. n. Burlesquing.]
To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation
in action or in language.
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They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and
turned the expression he used into ridicule.
--Stillingfleet.
[1913 Webster]Burlesque \Bur*lesque"\, n.
1. Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque
satire.
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Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first
represents mean persons in the accouterments of
heroes, the other describes great persons acting and
speaking like the basest among the people.
--Addison.
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2. An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite
laughter, or to ridicule anything.
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The dull burlesque appeared with impudence,
And pleased by novelty in spite of sense. --Dryden.
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3. A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross
perversion.
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Who is it that admires, and from the heart is
attached to, national representative assemblies, but
must turn with horror and disgust from such a
profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that
sacred institute? --Burke.
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Syn: Mockery; farce; travesty; mimicry.
[1913 Webster]Burlesque \Bur*lesque"\, v. i.
To employ burlesque.
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Burlesqued
(gcide) | Burlesque \Bur*lesque"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burlesqued; p.
pr. & vb. n. Burlesquing.]
To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation
in action or in language.
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They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and
turned the expression he used into ridicule.
--Stillingfleet.
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Burlesquer
(gcide) | Burlesquer \Bur*les"quer\, n.
One who burlesques.
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Dantesque
(gcide) | Dantesque \Dan*tesque"\, a. [Cf. It. Dantesco.]
Dantelike; Dantean. --Earle.
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Gigantesque
(gcide) | Gigantesque \Gi`gan*tesque"\, a. [F.]
Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.
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The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque
With which we bantered little Lilia first. --Tennyson.
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Grotesque
(gcide) | Grotesque \Gro*tesque"\ (gr[-o]*t[e^]sk"), a. [F., fr. It.
grottesco, fr. grotta grotto. See Grotto.]
1. Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike.
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2. Hence: Wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant;
of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous;
antic. "Grotesque design." --Dryden. "Grotesque
incidents." --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]Grotesque \Gro*tesque\, n.
1. A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old
crypts and grottoes. --Dryden.
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2. Artificial grotto-work.
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grotesque monstrous unnatural
(gcide) | nonhuman \nonhuman\ adj.
not human. Opposite of human. [Narrower terms: {anthropoid,
anthropoidal, apelike}; bloodless; dehumanized, unhuman;
grotesque, monstrous, unnatural; mechanical]
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Grotesquely
(gcide) | Grotesquely \Gro*tesque"ly\, adv.
In a grotesque manner.
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Grotesqueness
(gcide) | Grotesqueness \Gro*tesque"ness\, n.
Quality of being grotesque.
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grotesquerie
(gcide) | grotesquery \gro*tesqu"er*y\, n. [Written also grotesquerie.]
[From Grotesque.]
Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings;
ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion. "The
sustained grotesquery of Feather-top." --K. L. Bates.
Syn: grotesqueness.
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Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie,
wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter.
--George
Gissing.
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grotesquery
(gcide) | grotesquery \gro*tesqu"er*y\, n. [Written also grotesquerie.]
[From Grotesque.]
Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings;
ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion. "The
sustained grotesquery of Feather-top." --K. L. Bates.
Syn: grotesqueness.
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Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie,
wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter.
--George
Gissing.
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Hugoesque
(gcide) | Hugoesque \Hugoesque\ adj.
of, pertaining to, or in the style of Victor Hugo.
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Junoesque
(gcide) | Junoesque \Junoesque\ prop. a.
suggestive of a statue.
Syn: statuesque.
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Kafkaesque
(gcide) | Kafkaesque \Kafkaesque\ prop. a. [fr. Franz Kafka, novelist;
especially from his novels such as "The Trial".]
Frightening, threating, and bewildering in a vague and
unexplicable way; -- of situations or regulations. Often used
to describe illogical bureaucratic entanglements with no
reasonable solution.
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Kiplingesque
(gcide) | Kiplingesque \Kiplingesque\ prop. a.
Of, pertaining to, or in the style of Rudyard Kipling.
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Lesquerella
(gcide) | Lesquerella \Lesquerella\ prop. n.
A genus of low-growing hairy herbs, comprising some of the
bladderpods.
Syn: genus Lesquerella.
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Mauresque
(gcide) | Mauresque \Mau*resque"\, a. & n.
See Moresque.
[1913 Webster]Moresque \Mo*resque"\, a. [F., fr. It. moresco, or Sp. morisco.
See Morris.]
Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors;
Moorish. -- n. The Moresque style of architecture or
decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish.
[Written also mauresque.]
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mauresque
(gcide) | Mauresque \Mau*resque"\, a. & n.
See Moresque.
[1913 Webster]Moresque \Mo*resque"\, a. [F., fr. It. moresco, or Sp. morisco.
See Morris.]
Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors;
Moorish. -- n. The Moresque style of architecture or
decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish.
[Written also mauresque.]
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Michelangelesque
(gcide) | Michelangelesque \Michelangelesque\ prop. adj.
Of or pertaining to Michelangelo.
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Moresque
(gcide) | Moresque \Mo*resque"\, a. [F., fr. It. moresco, or Sp. morisco.
See Morris.]
Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors;
Moorish. -- n. The Moresque style of architecture or
decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish.
[Written also mauresque.]
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Picaresque
(gcide) | Picaresque \Pic`a*resque"\, a. [F., fr. Sp. picaro rogue.]
Applied to that class of literature in which the principal
personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a
rogue, an adventurer.
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Picturesque
(gcide) | Picturesque \Pic`tur*esque"\, a. [It. pittoresco: cf. F.
pittoresque. See Pictorial.]
Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture;
representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate
to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which
is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic;
vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque
language.
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What is picturesque as placed in relation to the
beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the
characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. --De
Quincey.
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Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.
[1913 Webster]colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
shot}; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
prismatic; psychedelic; {red, ruddy, flushed,
empurpled}]
Syn: colourful.
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2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; {flashy, gaudy,
jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; picturesque]
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3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; {amber,
brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; amethyst; {auburn,
reddish-brown}; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; {bicolor,
bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue,
bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful,
blush-colored, rosy}; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; {canary,
canary-yellow}; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
chartreuse; chestnut; dun; {earth-colored,
earthlike}; fuscous; {green, greenish, light-green,
dark-green}; jade, jade-green; khaki; {lavender,
lilac}; mauve; moss green, mosstone; {motley,
multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
varicolored, varicoloured}; mousy, mouse-colored;
ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
purple, violet, purplish; {red, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
scarlet}; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
rust, rusty, rust-colored; {snuff, snuff-brown,
snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel,
brownish-orange}; stone, stone-gray; {straw-color,
straw-colored, straw-coloured}; tan; tangerine;
tawny; ultramarine; umber; {vermilion,
vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; yellow, yellowish;
yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; {blae
bluish-black or gray-blue)}; coral; creamy; {cress
green, cresson, watercress}; hazel; {honey,
honey-colored}; hued(postnominal); magenta;
maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
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picturesque
(gcide) | Picturesque \Pic`tur*esque"\, a. [It. pittoresco: cf. F.
pittoresque. See Pictorial.]
Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture;
representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate
to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which
is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic;
vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque
language.
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What is picturesque as placed in relation to the
beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the
characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. --De
Quincey.
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Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.
[1913 Webster]colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
shot}; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
prismatic; psychedelic; {red, ruddy, flushed,
empurpled}]
Syn: colourful.
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2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; {flashy, gaudy,
jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; picturesque]
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3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; {amber,
brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; amethyst; {auburn,
reddish-brown}; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; {bicolor,
bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue,
bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful,
blush-colored, rosy}; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; {canary,
canary-yellow}; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
chartreuse; chestnut; dun; {earth-colored,
earthlike}; fuscous; {green, greenish, light-green,
dark-green}; jade, jade-green; khaki; {lavender,
lilac}; mauve; moss green, mosstone; {motley,
multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
varicolored, varicoloured}; mousy, mouse-colored;
ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
purple, violet, purplish; {red, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
scarlet}; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
rust, rusty, rust-colored; {snuff, snuff-brown,
snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel,
brownish-orange}; stone, stone-gray; {straw-color,
straw-colored, straw-coloured}; tan; tangerine;
tawny; ultramarine; umber; {vermilion,
vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; yellow, yellowish;
yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; {blae
bluish-black or gray-blue)}; coral; creamy; {cress
green, cresson, watercress}; hazel; {honey,
honey-colored}; hued(postnominal); magenta;
maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
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Picturesquely
(gcide) | Picturesque \Pic`tur*esque"\, a. [It. pittoresco: cf. F.
pittoresque. See Pictorial.]
Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture;
representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate
to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which
is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic;
vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque
language.
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What is picturesque as placed in relation to the
beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the
characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. --De
Quincey.
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Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.
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Picturesqueness
(gcide) | Picturesque \Pic`tur*esque"\, a. [It. pittoresco: cf. F.
pittoresque. See Pictorial.]
Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture;
representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate
to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which
is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic;
vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque
language.
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What is picturesque as placed in relation to the
beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the
characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. --De
Quincey.
[1913 Webster] -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. --
Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.
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Plateresque
(gcide) | Plateresque \Plat`er*esque"\, a. [Sp. resco, from plata silver.]
(Arch.)
Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural
ornaments.
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Raffaelesque
(gcide) | Raffaelesque \Raf`fa*el*esque"\ (r[a^]f`f[.a]*[e^]l*[e^]sk"), a.
Raphaelesque.
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Raphaelesque
(gcide) | Raphaelesque \Raph`a*el*esque"\ (r[a^]f`[.a]*[e^]l*[e^]sk"), a.
Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.
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Romanesque
(gcide) | Romanesque \Ro`man*esque"\, a. [F. romanesque; cf. It.
romanesco.]
1. (Arch.) Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied
sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire,
but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing
from the 8th century to the 12th.
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2. Of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful.
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Romanesque style (Arch.), that which grew up from the
attempts of barbarous people to copy Roman architecture
and apply it to their own purposes. This term is loosely
applied to all the styles of Western Europe, from the fall
of the Western Roman Empire to the appearance of Gothic
architecture.
[1913 Webster]Romanesque \Ro`man*esque"\, n.
Romanesque style.
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Romanesque style
(gcide) | Romanesque \Ro`man*esque"\, a. [F. romanesque; cf. It.
romanesco.]
1. (Arch.) Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied
sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire,
but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing
from the 8th century to the 12th.
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2. Of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful.
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Romanesque style (Arch.), that which grew up from the
attempts of barbarous people to copy Roman architecture
and apply it to their own purposes. This term is loosely
applied to all the styles of Western Europe, from the fall
of the Western Roman Empire to the appearance of Gothic
architecture.
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Sculpturesque
(gcide) | Sculpturesque \Sculp`tur*esque"\, a.
After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to,
sculpture.
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Statuesque
(gcide) | Statuesque \Stat`u*esque"\ (st[a^]ch`[=oo]*[e^]sk" or
st[a^]t`[-u]*[e^]sk"), a.
Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a
statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue
artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque
attitude.
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Their characters are mostly statuesque even in this
respect, that they have no background. --Hare.
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Statuesquely
(gcide) | Statuesquely \Stat`u*esque"ly\, adv.
In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like
a statue.
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A character statuesquely simple in its details.
--Lowell.
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Unpicturesque
(gcide) | Unpicturesque \Unpicturesque\
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Zolaesque
(gcide) | Zolaesque \Zo`la*esque"\, a.
In the style of Zola (see Zolaism).
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