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Japannish

Ja-pan′nish

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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)

  1. (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 []