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单词 indianesque
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Indianesqueadj.

Brit. /ˌɪndɪəˈnɛsk/, U.S. /ˌɪndiəˈnɛsk/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Indian adj., -esque suffix.
Etymology: < Indian adj. + -esque suffix.
1. Characteristic or suggestive of American Indians or their culture.
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1840 N. P. Willis Amer. Scenery I. 136 The Indianesque, but not very pretty name, in which this lovely body of waters [sc. Squawm Lake] rejoices.
a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (1883) ii. 12 Indianesque, not fully Indian, was her countenance.
1901 Anaconda (Montana) Standard 30 July 6/3 The tendency among Americans is to obesity..and baldness in early life. There's nothing Indianesque about that.
1989 Hist. Relig. 28 358 A feminized, ‘Indian’ (i.e., Indianesque) image of the North American landscape that distinguished it from Europe.
2006 T. Miles in T. Miles & S. P. Holland Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds p. xvii The woman had adopted a mode of Indianesque dress that..suggested a lack of close and current cultural knowledge of a particular Native tribe.
2. Characteristic or suggestive of India or its culture.
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1886 E. Arnold India Revisited x. 143 The Indianesque manner of it all is well maintained by a..building, containing a row of strongly-barred cages. Here..as if it were part of the natural appurtenances of a Rajput capital, are confined eight..tigers.
1896 Month Jan. 113 Most elaborate and beautiful examples of Indianesque architecture.
1924 Burlington Mag. Dec. p. xxxix/2 There are notes and an introduction and sixteen Indianesque colour plates by Mr. Hamzeh Carr.
1952 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 11 166 There are fat water jars with stiff bunches of lotus blossoms, distinctly Indianesque.
2000 W. Ball Rome in East viii. 401 The arrival of Indian sculpture even seems to have inspired a minor artistic fashion in ‘Indianesque’ portrait sculpture in Rome.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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