English Explanatory Dictionary

formalesque

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. modernist; of the artistic style of the period from around 1890 to 1960

Word forms

formalesque

Etymology

From formal + -esque; coined in 1994 by Australian art historian Bernard Smith, since the period referred to by "modernist" was by then no longer modern.

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