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stage-settier

stage-settier is the comparative form of stage-setty.

Meaning of stage-setty

Adjective

stage-setty (comparative stage-settier, superlative stage-settiest)

  1. (informal) Resembling a stage set.
    • In his apartment complex, Thornberg Village (now called Normandy Village) in Berkeley of 1928, he took the conventional and rather dull H-shaped apartment plan and squeezed and pulled it apart so that we feel, in a "stage-setty" way, that we are in a Medieval village.1976, Sally Woodbridge, editor, Bay Area Houses, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 110

Questions about stage-settier

What is stage-settier the comparative form of?
Stage-settier is the comparative form of stage-setty.

Words near stage-settier in the dictionary

  1. stage-managers
  2. stage-manages
  3. stage-managing
  4. stage-phoner
  5. stage-phoners
  6. stage-settier
  7. stage-settiest
  8. stage-setty
  9. stage-stricken
  10. stage-whisper
  11. stage-whispered

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