Monroesque

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1. Resembling Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), American actress and model.

   As tall as Brian, she was a natural honey blonde with Monroesque curves.

   2019, JB. Woods, Rebound, Lulu, page 189

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   Her posture, I concede, is strikingly Monroesque, though that evidently is no claim to individuality after Marilyn Monroe, Madonna and a hundred other clones of the Platonic Monroesque ideal.

   1996, Tabish Khair, An Angel in Pyjamas, HarperCollins Publishers India, →ISBN, page 75

   Investing in some fabulous and clever lingerie can help fast-track you to Monroesque curves.

   2006, Cherry Maslen, Linda Bird, Cellulite Solutions: Tips and Techniques to Lose the Lumps, Perigee Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 94

   During the fall tour, on October 2, 1947, Norman Granz met Loretta Sullivan, the first of three women who would become his wife. Seeing the Monroesque blonde beauty from Saginaw, Michigan, distributing fliers for the JATP concert outside the city’s Municipal Auditorium, he immediately fell in love.

   2011, Tad Hershorn, Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 122