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BBCesque en · ADJ

Etymology

From BBC + -esque.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of the BBC.
   • Thanks to cable, PBS now has to compete with Disney, A&E, and the Discovery Channel for BBCesque programming. 1996, James B. Twitchell, chapter 2, in Adcult USA: The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 102:
   • We are by no means obliged to surrender to some BBCesque cliché and think harshly of everyone among the privileged characters while we praise all those at the mercy of their spoiled whims. 1980, Isabel Colegate, The Shooting Party, Penguin Books, published 2007, →ISBN:
   • The most peculiarly BBCesque of these publications, however, were the affordable, light pamphlets circulated to the members of listening groups, in advance of a particular broadcast series. 2014, Shundana Yusaf, chapter 3, in Broadcasting Buildings: Architecture on the Wireless, 1927-1945, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 151:

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