Meanings
plural looksakes
- rareAn individual who looks like or is reminiscent of another; a doppelganger.
Franny, or her looksake, was walking in a southeasterly direction when she had disappeared from sight.
2014, G. Zimmerman, Verdure, page 2502 more examples
Despite the awkward weight of the pack, Kikun climbed the crumbly stone face like his looksake garden lizard going up a wall; Rose followed more slowly, grumbling all the way.
1991, Jo Clayton, ShadowkillWherever you are, I know that you're at peace and so I should be, too. That you watch over me, your “looksake,” as you do all your forebears, intervening on my behalf with God probably more often than polite.
2014, Nina Foxx, A Letter for My Mother, page 123
Origin
From look + sake or look's + sake, modelled after namesake, name's sake.
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