Definition of Gauguinesque

1. Adjective. In the manner of Paul Gauguin.

Partainyms: Gauguin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gauguinesque

Gatesian
Gateway City
Gateway to the West
Gathas
Gathic
Gatling
Gatling gun
Gatling guns
Gaucher cells
Gaudi
Gaudi i Cornet
Gauguin
Gauguinesque (current term)
Gaul
Gaulish
Gaullism
Gaullisms
Gaullist
Gaullists
Gauls
Gaultheria hispidula
Gaultheria procumbens
Gaultheria shallon
Gauri
Gauss' sign
Gauss gun
Gauss guns

Literary usage of Gauguinesque

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"... sent the little hunchbacked sculptor De Hahn, who strove to produce his own image in the form of a little Gauguinesque gnome, and later, Verkade, ..."

2. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"... in the form of a little Gauguinesque gnome, and later, Verkade, who attached himself more closely to Serusier when Gauguin left Europe. ..."

3. A Wanderer in Venice by Edward Verrall Lucas (1914)
"Adam names the animals; his rib is extracted; Eve, a curiously forbidding woman, rather a Gauguinesque type, results; she is presented to Adam; ..."

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