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English
Etymology
Michelangelo + -esque
Pronunciation
Adjective
Michelangelesque (comparative more Michelangelesque, superlative most Michelangelesque)
- Resembling or relating to the works of the artist Michelangelo (1475–1564).
1902 August 21, Henry James, chapter XI, in The Wings of the Dove, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book fifth, page 242:The lady in question, at all events, with her slightly Michaelangelesque squareness, her eyes of other days, her full lips, her long neck, her recorded jewels, her brocaded and wasted reds, was a very great personage—only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead.
Translations
resembling or relating to Michelangelo