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madonnalike
adj 2
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5ADJ.
painted
VERB + MADONNALIKE
face, record, rounded
MADONNALIKE + NOUN
author, picture, portrait, quality, softness
PREP.
from, in, than, with
ADV.
ever
Definitions
adj
1
rare spelling of Madonna-like
Her hair was raven black with a tantalizing suggestion of wave which relieved the oval face from the madonnalike look it had so often worn since her mother’s death.
Miss [Dolores] Costello herself is more ethereally beautiful than ever, the madonnalike quality of her loveliness having been heightened by her motherhood.
adj
1
rare spelling of Madonna-like
[…] still less was any face that rounded, Madonnalike softness in which the Indian sculptors had expressed the sanctities of lust.
He [Paul Gauguin] was a religious man, and many of the women he painted had a Madonnalike quality.
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Her hair was raven black with a tantalizing suggestion of wave which relieved the oval face from the madonnalike look it had so often worn since her mother’s death.
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Miss [Dolores] Costello herself is more ethereally beautiful than ever, the madonnalike quality of her loveliness having been heightened by her motherhood.
Wiktionary03
Contains marriage certificate, family record, and madonnalike picture of author’s wife and baby.
Wiktionary04
[…] still less was any face that rounded, Madonnalike softness in which the Indian sculptors had expressed the sanctities of lust.
Wiktionary05
He [Paul Gauguin] was a religious man, and many of the women he painted had a Madonnalike quality.
Wiktionary06
Or the March of Dimes, which researches cures for birth defects, solicits public sympathy with a Madonnalike portrait of a loving mother and her perfectly formed baby.
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