Meanings
adjectiveChaplinesque (comparative more Chaplinesque, superlative most Chaplinesque)
comparative more Chaplinesque · superlative most Chaplinesque
- Reminiscent of Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (1889–1977), English comic actor and film director of the silent film era.
One of these [posters], When in Doubt, Take the Underground (1913), depicts a dazed, Chaplinesque man consulting his watch and looking perplexed. Well, he would look perplexed - he hasn't yet noticed the light of the Underground station sign behind him.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 162
Origin
Translations
Czech chaplinovský
- chaplinovskýresembling Charlie Chaplin
French chaplinesque
- chaplinesqueresembling Charlie Chaplin
Russian чарличаплиновский, чарличаплинский
- чарличаплиновский (čarličaplinovskij)resembling Charlie Chaplin
- чарличаплинский (čarličaplinskij)resembling Charlie Chaplin
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