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Volˈtairish, a. rare
[f. Voltaire (see above) + -ish.]
Resembling Voltaire.
1842Mrs. Browning Bk. Poets Poet. Wks. (1904) 639/2 We will not..set up its grand, luxurious, melancholy devil against Goethe's subtle, biting, Voltairish devil. a1846B. R. Haydon Autobiogr. (1927) iii. xiii. 252 ‘Ah,’ shrugged out monsieur le valet, with a sparkling Voltairish look which every Frenchman has when convicted, as if planning a repartee, ‘c'est très vrai.’ |