Moscowesque

Moscowesque

English

Etymology

Moscow +‎ -esque

Adjective

Moscowesque (not comparable)

1. (rare) resembling Moscow.
   • 1937, Percy Noël, When Japan Fights, page 36:

     But they were Moscowesque incidents and if they were planned to stir indignation against the Japanese, they partly succeeded.

   • 1972, Ralph Chaplin, Wobbly, the rough-and-tumble story of an American radical, Da Capo Pr, page 381:

     I sat through the meeting, studying the Moscowesque murals that bordered the Guild hall, garish daubs depicting the evolution of human society from slavery and barbarism, to the triumphant march of the intemational proletariat

   • 2016, Adina Hoffman, Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City, Macmillan (→ISBN), page 249:

     One then passes through a dank, Moscowesque underground passageway where a shade-craving old Russian busker with a synthesizer, a cotton cap, and a morose look is almost always playing 1960s Israeli schmaltz, lento.