Meanings
comparative more croissantlike · superlative most croissantlike
- Resembling or characteristic of a croissant.
The eye comes from the croissantlike truncation of a woman’s head in Picasso’s 1936 “Straw Hat With Blue Leaves,” a form Mr. Johns has worked with for years.
2008 April 10, Roberta Smith, “Consummate Recycler Meets a Pointillist”, in New York Times
Origin
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