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-esque
an adjective suffix indicating style, manner, resemblance, or distinctive character: arabesque; Romanesque; picturesque.

[Origin: < F < It -esco ≪ Gmc; see -ish1]
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-esque  
suff.   In the manner of; resembling: Lincolnesque.


[French, from Italian -esco, from Vulgar Latin *-iscus, of Germanic origin.]

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-esque

-esque\ [F., fr. It. -isco. Cf. -ish.] A suffix of certain words from the French, Italian, and Spanish. It denotes manner or style; like; as, arabesque, after the manner of the Arabs.
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-esque

-ish\ [AS. -isc; akin to G. -isch, OHG. -isc, Goth. & Dan. -isk, Gr. ?. Cf. -esque.] A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a diminutive force; as, selfish, boyish, brutish; whitish, somewhat white.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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