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English
Etymology
From Hogwarts + -esque.
Adjective
Hogwarts-esque (comparative more Hogwarts-esque, superlative most Hogwarts-esque)
- Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.
2001 August 13, Dave Hardenbrook, “Is Rowling a Mary Poppins fan?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):> Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley played Ellen, the Banks' Maid. / Interesting... Though if there were any British actress that our Hermio-ninny was named after, I would like it to be Hermione Gingold (Who once *did* play a Hogwarts-esque witch).
2002 May 29, Michael D. Reid, “X-Men to save universe at Royal Roads”, in Times Colonist, 144th year, number 167, Victoria, B.C., page C1, column 3:The castle will masquerade as the same location played by Toronto’s Casa Loma — Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, a Hogwarts-esque academy where telepathic Prof. Charles Xavier (Stewart) teaches mutants-in-training to control their superpowers.
2014, Karla Zimmerman, Pocket Washington DC, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 61, column 1:Near the campus’ east gate, medieval-looking Healy Hall impresses with its tall, Hogwarts-esque clock tower.
2017, Tallia Storm, Signed with a Kiss, Scholastic Children’s Boos, →ISBN, page 121:The sky is definitely brightening and I can even see a patch of watery blue hanging around above a gobsmackingly large building with a huge carved stone doorway and ranks of stone animals tucked up against its Hogwarts-esque roofline.
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