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formalesque en · ADJ

Etymology

From formal + -esque; coined in 1994 by Australian art historian Bernard Smith, since the period referred to by "modernist" was by then no longer modern.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) modernist; of the artistic style of the period from around 1890 to 1960