Monroesque

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), American actress and model.

    "Her posture, I concede, is strikingly Monroesque, though that evidently is no claim to individuality after Marilyn Monroe, Madonna and a hundred other clones of the Platonic Monroesque ideal."

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"Her posture, I concede, is strikingly Monroesque, though that evidently is no claim to individuality after Marilyn Monroe, Madonna and a hundred other clones of the Platonic Monroesque ideal."

Etymology

From Monroe + -esque.

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