Whit|man|esque

Whit|man|esque
Whit|man|esque «HWIHT muh NEHSK», adjective.
of, having to do with, or suggestive of Walt Whitman (1819-1892), an American poet, or his style of poetry: »

The pretentiousness derives…from a kind of Whitmanesque grandiosity that runs through the book (New Yorker).


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