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- adjective Of, relating to, or in the
style of Augustus Pugin, English Gothic revivalistarchitect
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Examples
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He bequeathed his own name to the particular, evocative, Romantic British vistas of monastic settlements and crenellated castles we still describe as 'Puginesque.'
A Hero of the Gothic MacCarthy, Fiona 2009
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We left the high-road and soon were in the wood -- the dripping woodways, all strewn with ruinous gold, opening to right and left; and soon the roofs and towers of the big house -- Puginesque Gothic, I must tell you -- came in sight.
The Upton Letters Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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My Father did not, indeed, forbid me to enter the fine parish church of our village, or the stately Puginesque cathedral which Rome had just erected at its side, but I knew that I could not be seen at either service without his immediately knowing it, or without his being deeply wounded.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888
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