Meaning of Greekesque | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling a Greek appearance or style.

Examples

“In the nave of Nôtre Dame every vestige of this Greekesque foliage is got rid of, its general outline alone excepted; and a kind perfectly new and most truly noble is substituted, founded slightly on reminiscences of the true Romanesque foliage previous to the Oriental importation, retaining the outline suggested by the acanthus leaf, but worked up into a form which had never before been hinted at, and which was destined to effect a great revolution in this branch of art.”

“Noble specimen he with the Greekesque bootees, tiger skin jock, and plastered all over with swellings that look like a bad case of boils.”

“The sculptural and pictorial arts of west Europe may claim to be Byzantinesque, but never, till the modern revivals, could architecture as a fine art think itself Greekesque.”

“We drove around until we spotted a white, stucco, "Greekesque" motor inn.”

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