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Madonnaish en · ADJ

Etymology

From Madonna + -ish. Piecewise doublet of Madonnaesque.

Meanings

1. Like a Madonna.
   • She is too Madonnaish in one way, too languishing and sentimental in another: […] 1891 October 24, The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, number 3339, London: […] John C. Francis, […] , page 547, column 1:
   • “Raise the hands, Miss Cherrell. No! Too Madonnaish. We must think of the devil in the hair. The eyes to me, full.” 1931, John Galsworthy, Maid in Waiting, London: William Heinemann Ltd., page 348:
   • The more Madonnaish the women, the more daddish and less caddish the men, and thus the more Madonnaish the women, and so on. 1994, Robert Wright, The Moral Animal, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 141:

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