Jacksonesque
See also: jacksonesque
English
Adjective
Jacksonesque (comparative more Jacksonesque, superlative most Jacksonesque)
- Resembling or reminiscent of a Jackson.
- 2006, Jack Temple Kirby, Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South, UNC Press, →ISBN, page xviii:
- […] a school of landscape studies identified with the late John Brinkerhoff Jackson[sic] and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Jacksonesque landscape studies […]
- (specifically) Resembling or reminiscent of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), American president and military governor.
- 2000, Edward L. Widmer, Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City, Oxford University Press US, →ISBN, page 68:
- 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, […]
- (specifically) Resembling or reminiscent of Michael Jackson (1958-2009), American pop musician.
- 2001, Josh Sims, Rock Fashion, Omnibus Press, →ISBN, page 216:
- 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.
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