Oxfordesque

comparative more Oxfordesque · superlative most Oxfordesque

1. Resembling or characteristic of the University of Oxford.

   I did tour Kent University, […] Somehow I expected something more Oxfordesque and Anglican, but this place looked like a cookie-cutter community college.

   2010, Becky Garrison, Jesus Died for This?: A Satirist's Search for the Risen Christ, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 52

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   Yes, the sudden, forced move to the sleazy new building at the unfashionable end of campus, after their splendid Oxfordesque castle had been co-opted by the fascists, had definitely taken a constipating effect on the flow of ideas in and around the Anthropology Department.

   1994, Tom Bradley, Acting Alone, BrownTrout Publishers, Inc. (hardcover) (softcover), chapter 10, 87

   Edward Mellon's drawings depicted the tall structure Bowman required, but also included a number of odd-shaped Oxfordesque quadrangles surrounding the structure.

   2006, Christian K. Anderson, “Building an Icon: The Rise and Fall of John G. Bowman, Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, 1921-1945”, in Roger L. Geiger, editor, Iconic Leaders in Higher Education, Transaction Publishers, published 2011, →ISBN, page 142