magiciany

comparative more magiciany · superlative most magiciany

1. Resembling or characteristic of a magician.

   A beautiful, queer, dim, magiciany sort of place with Oriental rugs and draperies and cushions, and perfume in the air—incense, I think.

   1913 January, Maravene Kennedy Thompson, “Peggy and the Swami: Another Peggy Story”, in McClure’s Magazine, volume XL, number 3, New York, N.Y.; London: The McClure Publications, Inc., page 302, column 2

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   In one of the baskets, besides a beard, James found a long black magiciany sort of cloak, a squashy black hat, and a bulgy umbrella which was really a trick one.

   1953, Oriel Malet [pseudonym; Auriel Rosemary Malet Vaughan], “James Visits a Modern Art Gallery”, in Beginner’s Luck, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 158

   ‘[…] His name’s Somethingorother the Wonderful. Or the Amazing, or the Fantastic. Something like that, anyway. It’s a very magiciany name, whatever it is.’ […] Arko the Magnificent? / That was a very magiciany name.

   1997, Aislinn O’Loughlin, The Emperor’s Birthday Suit, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, →ISBN, pages 70 (chapter 6) and 77 (chapter 7)

   Synonyms: magicianlike, magicianly, magicianlike, magicianly, weird, witchish, witchlike, witchly