sarcophaguslike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sarcophagus +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

sarcophaguslike (comparative more sarcophaguslike, superlative most sarcophaguslike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a sarcophagus.
    • 2007 September 23, Randy Kennedy, “The Duchamp of the Muscle Car”, in New York Times[1]:
      From the mail-order car hoods that he first started painting and hanging in the late 1980s to evoke Ad Reinhardt or Mark Rothko (“They were really minimal, and I don’t think anybody got them,” he said), Mr. Prince progressed to appropriating heftier chunks of automotive anatomy, making sarcophaguslike sculptures crowned with air scoops, usually left with the appearance of being only partly primed and spackled with body-shop Bondo compound.