"Romanesque" is a word in ENGLISH
Romanesque style.
Of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful.
Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied sometimes to
the debased style of the later Roman empire, but esp. to the more
developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.
still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.
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One agent stops by another agent's table to tell him the big news: "Elvis just died!" The second agent says nothing, then starts nodding. "Good career move."
The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column
Read the complete definitionThe use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Virgil, the Roman poet; resembling the style of Virgil.
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