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Greekesque

Greekesque adjective: resembling a Greek appearance or style.

Adjective

Greekesque (comparative more Greekesque, superlative most Greekesque)

  1. Resembling a Greek appearance or style.
    • In the nave of Nôtre Dame every vestige of this Greekesque foliage is got rid of, its general outline alone excepted; and a kind perfectly new and most truly noble is substituted, founded slightly on reminiscences of the true Romanesque foliage previous to the Oriental importation, retaining the...1879, Sir George Gilbert Scott, Lectures on the Rise and Development of Mediæval Architecture
    • Noble specimen he with the Greekesque bootees, tiger skin jock, and plastered all over with swellings that look like a bad case of boils.1914, Young Men - Volume 40, page 27

Examples of Greekesque in a sentence

  • The sculptural and pictorial arts of west Europe may claim to be Byzantinesque, but never, till the modern revivals, could architecture as a fine art think itself Greekesque.1929, James Louis Garvin, Franklin Henry Hooper, Warren E. Cox, The Encyclopedia britannica - Volume 9, page 245:
  • We drove around until we spotted a white, stucco, "Greekesque" motor inn.1993, Peter McGehee, Beyond happiness: the intimate memoirs of Billy Lee Belle, page 18:

Forms of Greekesque

comparativemore Greekesque
superlativemost Greekesque

Origin of Greekesque

From Greek + -esque. Piecewise doublet of Greekish.

Questions about Greekesque

What does Greekesque mean?
Greekesque means resembling a Greek appearance or style.
How do you use Greekesque in a sentence?
The sculptural and pictorial arts of west Europe may claim to be Byzantinesque, but never, till the modern revivals, could architecture as a fine art think itself Greekesque.
What part of speech is Greekesque?
Greekesque is an adjective.

Words near Greekesque in the dictionary

  1. Greeke
  2. greeked
  3. greeked it
  4. Greeker
  5. Greekery
  6. Greekesque
  7. Greekess
  8. Greekesses
  9. Greekest
  10. Greekification
  11. Greekified

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