Madonnaish

English Etymology From en Madonna ish. en Madonnaesque. Adjective Like a Madonna. en The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama 3339 London Printed by John C. Francis, Took’s Court, Chancery Lane. Published at the Office, 22, Took’s Court, Chancery Lane, E.C., by John C. Francis 24 October 1891 547 1 She is too Madonnaish in one way, too languishing and sentimental in another: en w:John Galsworthy Maid in Waiting London William Heinemann Ltd. 1931 348 https://archive.org/details/maidinwaiting0000john/page/348/mode/1up “Raise the hands, Miss Cherrell. No! Too Madonnaish. We must think of the devil in the hair. The eyes to me, full.” en Robert Wright w:The Moral Animal New York, N.Y. w:Pantheon Books 1994 141 https://archive.org/details/moralanimalnewsc0000wrig/page/141/mode/1up 0-679-40773-1 The more Madonnaish the women, the more daddish and less caddish the men, and thus the more Madonnaish the women, and so on. References Madonna VI 2 19 1