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Jacksonesque
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jacksonesque
English
Etymology
From en Jackson esque.
Adjective
Resembling or reminiscent of a Jackson.
en 2006 Jack Temple Kirby Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South http://books.google.com/books?id=R7GI6Gg-a10C&pg=PR18&dq=Jacksonesque xviii UNC Press 9780807830574 a school of landscape studies identified with the late John Brinkerhoff Jackson and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Jacksonesque landscape studies
en specifically Resembling or reminiscent of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), American president and military governor.
en 2000 w:Edward L. Widmer Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City http://books.google.com/books?id=2Ck1o_fOr5YC&pg=PA68&dq=Jacksonesque 68 Oxford University Press US 978-0-19-514062-0 In December 1841 [John Greenleaf] Whittier published “Democracy,” which celebrated a Jacksonesque spirit “unawed by pomp or power,” but also disclaimed allegiance to the Whigs or Democrats,
en specifically Resembling or reminiscent of Michael Jackson (1958-2009), American pop musician.
en 2001 Josh Sims Rock Fashion http://books.google.com/books?id=cC9yLjQenfoC&pg=PA216&dq=Jacksonesque 216 Omnibus Press 978-0-7119-8749-4 In the [‘Billie Jean’ music] video, Jackson hoists up his drainpipe trousers, in order to strut his stuff – now-archetypal Jacksonesque dance movements involving either one shoe being stuck out and swivelled from side to side on the ball of the foot, or leaping knock-kneed up on to both toes.
See also
en Jacksonian
en eponyms