egretlike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

egret +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

egretlike (comparative more egretlike, superlative most egretlike)

  1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of an egret.
    • 2007 February 18, Ben Brantley, “When Adaptation Is Bold Innovation”, in New York Times[1]:
      Instead the play focuses on Don Juan (the egretlike Rhys Ifans) as an aristocratic anachronism, a vestige of a dead age who has nothing left to do but play games and exercise his droit de seigneur.