Havisham-esque

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Havishamesque.

   Detailed, white washed wood with a distressed element and plenty of rococo detailing creates a Havisham-esque feel.

   2016 October, The Angel Resident, page 43

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   Imagine a party in full swing, with everyone roaring drunk and falling over. My no-work-while-the-sun-shines ethos has meant that the garden is rather grandly Havisham-esque.

   2012, Laetitia Maklouf, “July”, in Sweet Peas for Summer: How to Create a Garden in a Year, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 141

   When she told me she hadn't seen it [the film Grey Gardens (1975)], I launched into an enthusiastic gush about this legendary seventies Maysles brothers documentary about a mother and daughter who lived in Havisham-esque decay in East Hampton.

   2013, Simon Doonan, “Lipstick on Your Kneecaps”, in The Asylum: A Collage of Couture Reminiscences … and Hysteria, New York, N.Y.: Blue Rider Press, Penguin Group, →ISBN

   What did Dad think, I wondered, after showing and selling all those painstakingly cleaned, repainted, and remodeled houses every day, when he came home to ours? Was he blind to the Havisham-esque decay? Or did he find the evidence of time’s passage comforting, a reminder that there would be an end to the sadness he endured just as there would be an end to the house, to all the sad things people lived in and lived through?

   2013, Natalie Brown, “Ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)”, in The Lovebird, Doubleday, →ISBN

   From five floors above, our home seemed to be watching us. I imagined the rooms slipping into a Havisham-esque decay as we failed them, the idea of us that I cherished receding.

   2015, Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus, How to Be a Grown-Up, Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 95

   With the Havisham[-]esque, eerie interpretation of Mankowitz’s well known photograph of Marianne Faithfull (right) and an indulgent, Borgias royalty type interpretation of Mankowitz’s Hendrix prints (above), these two visionaries have made history, a joint art force to be reckoned with.

   2017 June, “Evoking Hendrix”, in The Resident, page 12, column 3