Japanesque
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Japanesque
Example Sentences
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The Nakamise now sells tourist kitsch in the hope of turning a sale or two, the site of the Denkikan holds a Japanesque apartment block with a few impoverished beauty-shop boutiques on the ground floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few fans of the cheap Japanesque variety were pinned here and there in painful regularity.
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray
In sharp contrast with the former's muscular and broad type of modeling, the latter has a very precise and Japanesque quality of detail modeling which is sometimes a little photographic.
From The Galleries of the Exposition by Eugen Neuhaus
As a Cookhamite assured us, "Mr. C—— goes in for the Japanesque;" and he screens the large display-windows intended for cheese, raisins, and potted meats with smiling mandarins and narrow-eyed houris under octopus-like trees.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various
“I have 302 nothing to confess, but if I had, I should be Japanesque and keep it to myself.”
From Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Nell Speed
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