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landladyish
(
comparative
more
landladyish
,
superlative
most
landladyish
)
(
rare
)
Suggesting or befitting a
landlady
.
1939
, Nicholas Monsarrat,
This Is the Schoolroom
, page
12
:
[
…
]
as if someone had suddenly switched on a searchlight which filled every corner of the odd
landladyish
room with its aspidistra and baize cloth and the smoke and heat of the game.
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