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masklike en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English mask Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English masklike From mask + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling a mask.
   • The works from early in the decade have a masklike, totemic quality, reminiscent of Gorky and early Pollock. 2007 October 26, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
   • The classic modern android was the high-fashion model of the Fifties to Seventies, with her haughty masklike face. 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

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