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Moscowesque en · ADJ

Etymology

From Moscow + -esque.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) resembling Moscow.
    • One then passes through a dank, Moscowesque underground passageway where a shade-craving old Russian busker with a synthesizer, a cotton cap, and a morose look is almost always playing 1960s Israeli schmaltz, lento. 2016, Adina Hoffman, Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 249:
    • I sat through the meeting, studying the Moscowesque murals that bordered the Guild hall, garish daubs depicting the evolution of human society from slavery and barbarism, to the triumphant march of the intemational proletariat 1972, Ralph Chaplin, Wobbly, the rough-and-tumble story of an American radical, Da Capo Pr, page 381:
    • But they were Moscowesque incidents and if they were planned to stir indignation against the Japanese, they partly succeeded. 1937, Percy Noël, When Japan Fights, page 36: