Gogol
noun
Nikolai Vasilievich 1809–52, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
Gogolian
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a word derived from
Gogol.
Example Sentences
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That was the case for me when I read the Gogolian story of George Brown, also from South Carolina, who spoke of having had his coat stolen by a ghost with a “thieving habit.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Assorted third parties got drawn onto the battlefield, including a Harvard professor Beam describes as “a personage of almost Gogolian gravamen,” Alexander Gerschenkron, to whom even Nabokov didn’t have the audacity to reply.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2016
Rounding out the cast of characters are a Parisian widow named Madame La Franck, a Gogolian nonentity named Quaquelique, and, umm, Joseph Stalin.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2015
Peter Hoffman, the chef and owner of Savoy, created the special Gogolian menu in collaboration with Ms. Goldstein.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2011
It is this that makes of Dead Souls a unique work, peculiarly Gogolian, peculiarly Russian, and distinct from its author's Spanish and English masters.
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
