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cleflike

cleflike adjective: resembling a musical clef.

Adjective

cleflike (comparative more cleflike, superlative most cleflike)

  1. Resembling a musical clef.
    • Early sculptures refer, often explicitly, to musical structure and notation: the torqued staffs of “Sculpture No. 17” (1935) or the cleflike curlicues of “Sculpture 11” (1934).2008 May 8, Karen Rosenberg, “Italian Sculptor Attuned to the Harmonic Occupation of Space”, in New York Times

Forms of cleflike

comparativemore cleflike
superlativemost cleflike

Origin of cleflike

From clef + -like.

Questions about cleflike

What does cleflike mean?
Cleflike means resembling a musical clef.
What part of speech is cleflike?
Cleflike is an adjective.

Words near cleflike in the dictionary

  1. clefamide
  2. cleff
  3. cleffer
  4. cleffers
  5. cleffs
  6. cleflike
  7. clefs
  8. cleft
  9. cleft chin
  10. cleft chins
  11. cleft grafting

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