(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:28:53

-esque (?). [F., fr. It. -isco. Cf. -ish.]

A suffix of certain words from the French, Italian, and Spanish. It denotes manner or style; like; as, arabesque, after the manner of the Arabs.

 

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