Meaning of Jacksonesque | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling or reminiscent of a Jackson.
2. Resembling or reminiscent of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), American president and military governor.
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3. Resembling or reminiscent of Michael Jackson (1958-2009), American pop musician.
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Examples

“[…] a school of landscape studies identified with the late John Brinkerhoff Jackson^([sic]) and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Jacksonesque landscape studies […]”

“In December 1841 [John Greenleaf] Whittier published “Democracy,” which celebrated a Jacksonesque spirit “unawed by pomp or power,” but also disclaimed allegiance to the Whigs or Democrats, […]”

“In the [‘Billie Jean’ music] video, Jackson hoists up his drainpipe trousers, […] in order to strut his stuff – now-archetypal Jacksonesque dance movements involving either one shoe being stuck out and swivelled from side to side on the ball of the foot, or leaping knock-kneed up on to both toes.”

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