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Japannish
Ja-pan′nish
,Adj.
After the manner of the Japanese; resembling japanned articles.
Carlyle.
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japannish
japannish
English
Adjective
japannish (comparative more japannish, superlative most japannish)
- (nonce word) After the manner of the Japanese; resembling japanned articles.
- 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling (page 44)
- Classicality, indeed, which does not satisfy one's sense as real or truly living, but which glitters with a certain genial, if perhaps almost meretricious half-japannish splendor […]
- 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling (page 44)