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Moscowesque
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English
Etymology
From en Moscow esque.
Adjective
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en rare resembling Moscow.
en 1937 Percy Noël When Japan Fights 36 But they were Moscowesque incidents and if they were planned to stir indignation against the Japanese, they partly succeeded.
en 1972 Ralph Chaplin Wobbly, the rough-and-tumble story of an American radical Da Capo Pr 381 I sat through the meeting, studying the Moscowesque murals that bordered the Guild hall, garish daubs depicting the evolution of human society from slavery and barbarism, to the triumphant march of the intemational proletariat
en 2016 Adina Hoffman Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City Macmillan 9780374289102 249 One then passes through a dank, Moscowesque underground passageway where a shade-craving old Russian busker with a synthesizer, a cotton cap, and a morose look is almost always playing 1960s Israeli schmaltz, lento.