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Puginesque, a.|ˌpjuːdʒɪˈnɛsk|
[f. the name Pugin (see def.) + -esque.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the English architect A. W. N. Pugin (1812–1852) or his style of architecture; Gothic-revivalist. So ˌPugiˈnesquery [-ery] nonce-wd., matters related to Pugin or his architectural style.
1848C. Kingsley Yeast v, in Fraser's Mag. XXXVIII. 286/1 When they talk Puginesquery, I stick my head on one side attentively, and ‘think the more’, like the lady's parrot. 1856F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 210 In her ambition to be Puginesque, she made her husband's chancel look as if it had been decked by a mad haberdasher. 1864Ecclesiologist XXV. 345 The general idea is Puginesque, the style Middle-Pointed. 1904A. C. Benson Let. 5 Oct. in Upton Lett. (1905) 234 The roofs and towers of the big house—Puginesque Gothic, I must tell you—came in sight. 1907E. Gosse Father & Son xii. 339 My Father did not, indeed, forbid me to enter..the stately Puginesque cathedral which Rome had just erected. 1961E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender ii. iii. 72 The Catholic parish church is..a Puginesque structure erected..in the early 1860's. 1975V. Cunningham Everywhere spoken Against iii. 86 The whole set of Puginesque-Arnoldian assumptions. |