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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. In the manner of; resembling: Lincolnesque.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. A termination in adjectives of French or other Romance origin, meaning ‘having the style or manner of,’ as in grotcsque, picturesq ue, arabesque, Moresque, Dantesque, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. In the style or manner of; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives.
  2. n. Resembling; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. A suffix of certain words from the French, Italian, and Spanish. It denotes manner or style; like.

Etymologies

  1. French, from Italian -esco, from Vulgar Latin *-iscus, of Germanic origin.

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