Rembrandtesque
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Don Miguel de Castro, a black envoy from the African kingdom of Kongo to the Dutch court, looks forbearingly out at us from under his absurd Rembrandtesque hat.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2018
The second, Photographer Steichen's favorite, showed the subject looming characteristically massive out of Rembrandtesque shadow.
From Time Magazine Archive
His people are no longer elements of landscape, but Rembrandtesque, life-sized faces of those he knows well.
From Time Magazine Archive
She carried a parasol of the same color and material as her dress, while her head was crowned with a sweeping, rakishly plumed Rembrandtesque hat worn at a killing angle.
From When Dreams Come True by Berger, William Merritt
"I will not disguise from you, Eustace," continued Mrs. Greyne, looking increasingly Rembrandtesque, "that, in my present work, I am taking a somewhat new departure."
From The Mission Of Mr. Eustace Greyne 1905 by Hichens, Robert Smythe
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