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Lincolnesque, a.|lɪŋkəˈnɛsk|
[f. the name of Abraham Lincoln (1809–65), 16th president of the U.S. + -esque.]
Resembling or having the qualities of Abraham Lincoln. So Lincolnian |lɪŋˈkəʊnɪən|, a.
1910H. P. Willis Stephen A. Douglas xiii. 283 A characteristic Lincolnian anecdote which the speaker applied to the repetition of the ‘state fraud’ of the Springfield resolutions. 1923Public Opinion 15 June 565/3 That is Lincolnesque in its homeliness. 1962E. Ames Daughter of House (1963) i. i. 30 The two long Lincolnesque furrows of the cheeks. 1963Economist 20 July 257/2 The [Republican] party's Lincolnian heritage. 1968Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 9 Apr. (1970) 659 The star of that day was Hector Legge, of Dublin, Ireland, ‘Dean’ of the traveling journalists, a towering figure..with a Lincolnesque face. |