monkish
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adjective
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Origin of monkish
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Festival organizers say they’ll have at least 350 choices on tap, including a variety of breweries that are not usually available in the Washington area, such as Toppling Goliath, the Alchemist, Threes, Monkish and Equilibrium.
From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2018
“It’s all we can package,” said Mr. Nguyen of Monkish.
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2017
This is Monk at his most Monkish: essential stuff.
From Slate • Dec. 13, 2012
A reserved but trenchant Moran plays with a Thelonious Monkish economy that Motian latches on to, and the performance builds from whispering beginnings to a drum-driven urgency in the later stages.
From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2010
Monkish annals, devotional works, and lives were written in Latin; but the chronicle of Roskild, the necrology of Lund, the register of gifts to the cloister of Sora, are not literature.
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus
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