"Greekesque" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1879, Sir George Gilbert Scott, Lectures on the Rise and Development of Mediæval Architecture",
          "text": "In the nave of Nôtre Dame every vestige of this Greekesque foliage is got rid of, its general outline alone excepted; and a kind perfectly new and most truly noble is substituted, founded slightly on reminiscences of the true Romanesque foliage previous to the Oriental importation, retaining the outline suggested by the acanthus leaf, but worked up into a form which had never before been hinted at, and which was destined to effect a great revolution in this branch of art.",
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          "ref": "1914, Young Men - Volume 40, page 27",
          "text": "Noble specimen he with the Greekesque bootees, tiger skin jock, and plastered all over with swellings that look like a bad case of boils.",
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          "ref": "1929, James Louis Garvin, Franklin Henry Hooper, Warren E. Cox, The Encyclopedia britannica - Volume 9, page 245",
          "text": "The sculptural and pictorial arts of west Europe may claim to be Byzantinesque, but never, till the modern revivals, could architecture as a fine art think itself Greekesque.",
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          "ref": "1993, Peter McGehee, Beyond happiness: the intimate memoirs of Billy Lee Belle, page 18",
          "text": "We drove around until we spotted a white, stucco, \"Greekesque\" motor inn.",
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          "ref": "1879, Sir George Gilbert Scott, Lectures on the Rise and Development of Mediæval Architecture",
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