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Japanesque

American  
[jap-uh-nesk] / ˌdʒæp əˈnɛsk /

adjective

  1. having a Japanese style.


Etymology

Origin of Japanesque

First recorded in 1880–85; Japan + -esque

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

Yama's new building projected for Harvard is somewhat less successful�it seems contrived, even "Japanesque."

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Speed, Nell

He does not seem to be working in the right medium, for I believe his Japanesque landscapes could be far more sympathetically presented in watercolour.

From The Galleries of the Exposition by Neuhaus, Eugen

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