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Jacksonesque

Jacksonesque adjective: resembling or reminiscent of a Jackson.

Adjective

Jacksonesque (comparative more Jacksonesque, superlative most Jacksonesque)

  1. Resembling or reminiscent of a Jackson.
    • […] a school of landscape studies identified with the late John Brinkerhoff Jackson^([sic]) and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Jacksonesque landscape studies […]2006, Jack Temple Kirby, Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South, UNC Press, →ISBN, page xviii
  2. (specifically) Resembling or reminiscent of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), American president and military governor.
    • In December 1841 [John Greenleaf] Whittier published “Democracy,” which celebrated a Jacksonesque spirit “unawed by pomp or power,” but also disclaimed allegiance to the Whigs or Democrats, […]2000, Edward L. Widmer, Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City, Oxford University Press US, →ISBN, page 68
  3. (specifically) Resembling or reminiscent of Michael Jackson (1958-2009), American pop musician.
    • In the [‘Billie Jean’ music] video, Jackson hoists up his drainpipe trousers, […] in order to strut his stuff – now-archetypal Jacksonesque dance movements involving either one shoe being stuck out and swivelled from side to side on the ball of the foot, or leaping knock-kneed up on to both toes.2001, Josh Sims, Rock Fashion, Omnibus Press, →ISBN, page 216

Forms of Jacksonesque

comparativemore Jacksonesque
superlativemost Jacksonesque

Origin of Jacksonesque

From Jackson + -esque.

Questions about Jacksonesque

What does Jacksonesque mean?
Jacksonesque means resembling or reminiscent of a Jackson.
What part of speech is Jacksonesque?
Jacksonesque is an adjective.

Words near Jacksonesque in the dictionary

  1. Jackson's hartebeest
  2. Jackson-Meisenheimer complex
  3. Jackson-Pratt drain
  4. Jackson-Pratt drains
  5. Jackson-Weiss syndrome
  6. Jacksonesque
  7. jacksonian
  8. Jacksonian seizure
  9. Jacksonian seizures
  10. Jacksonianism
  11. Jacksonians

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