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Definition of Junoesque
1. Adjective. Suggestive of a statue.
Definition of Junoesque
1. Adjective. (context of a woman) beautiful Beautiful and imposing, like the goddess Juno ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Junoesque
Literary usage of Junoesque
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. NBC Handbook of Pronunciationby James Frederick Bender, National Broadcasting Company, inc by James Frederick Bender, National Broadcasting Company, inc (1834)
"... j- junket Juno junoesque junta junto Jupiter Jura Jurassic jurat Jürgens
juridical Jurinac, Sena jurisdiction jurisprudence jurist juror Jurua jury jus, ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"... junoesque" mistress, a certain milliner called " the Davis," a girl of seventeen.
When he leaves that neighbourhood, he leaves " the Davis," too, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1894)
"... she was herself past thirty years of age, with her ruinous charms in the full
luxuriance of their poisonous bloom. For her beauty was of that junoesque ..."
4. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1908)
"... all that is junoesque out of this mystic book of shades. Aeneas in Italy : "Juno
by keenest anguish stung" : is the situation at the beginning of the ..."
5. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles Larcom Graves (1922)
"Long before the cult of athletics had begun to affect the stature and build of
English girls, he devoted his pencil to glorifying the junoesque type of ..."
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