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stage-setty

stage-setty adjective: resembling a stage set.

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

Forms of stage-setty

comparativestage-settier
superlativestage-settiest

Origin of stage-setty

From stage set + -y.

Questions about stage-setty

What does stage-setty mean?
Stage-setty means resembling a stage set.
What part of speech is stage-setty?
Stage-setty is an adjective.

Words near stage-setty in the dictionary

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

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