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
Yama's new building projected for Harvard is somewhat less successful�it seems contrived, even "Japanesque."
From Time Magazine Archive
"It must be of bricks, wood and stone, separately and in combination; it must be Queen Anne, Gothic, French, Japanesque and classic American, and it must be painted all the colors of an autumn landscape."
From The House that Jill Built after Jack's had proved a failure by Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)
“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
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
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