arabesquenessn.

1856 M. Greene Kanzas Region xiv. 64 After suitable meditations and reminiscences, interspersed with crude philosophizings on the arabesqueness of my position.., I had fallen asleep.

1896 A. H. Smyth Bayard Taylor vi. 230 Taylor secured a felicitous effect by capriciously varying the order of the rhymes in the stanza.., and so producing an arabesqueness of design that filled the poem with surprises.

1969 Eng. Jrnl. 58 837/2 Although this discovery and the search for identity has begun, it remains a disheveled stream of arabesqueness at the conclusion of the novel.

2006 Z. P. Thundy in E. L. Risden Sir Gawain & Classical Trad. 165 Additional support for the arabesqueness of the poem comes from the tendril ornamentation found in the margin.