Meanings
adjectiveegretlike (comparative more egretlike, superlative most egretlike)
comparative more egretlike · superlative most egretlike
- rareResembling or characteristic of an egret.
Instead the play focuses on Don Juan (the egretlike Rhys Ifans) as an aristocratic anachronism, a vestige of a dead age who has nothing left to do but play games and exercise his droit de seigneur.
2007 February 18, Ben Brantley, “When Adaptation Is Bold Innovation”, in New York Times
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egretlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/egretlike
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“egretlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/egretlike. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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