Jacksonesque

See also: jacksonesque

English edit

From Jackson +‎ -esque.

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.