"Miss Havisham-esque" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more Miss Havisham-esque [comparative], most Miss Havisham-esque [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|nolinkhead=1}} Miss Havisham-esque (comparative more Miss Havisham-esque, superlative most Miss Havisham-esque)
  1. Alternative form of Miss Havishamesque. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Miss Havishamesque
    Sense id: en-Miss_Havisham-esque-en-adj-pq872o6G Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "2002, Catherine Alliott, A Married Man, BCA, CN 108881, page 63",
          "text": "Poor Lavinia, jilted two years ago by Piers, the fiancé whose feet had frozen solid just as the invitations were going out and the presents were rolling in. She’d never quite got over it, and whilst not exactly Miss Havisham-esque in her grief, had nevertheless gone into a steep decline.",
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          "ref": "2013, Travis Elborough, “We Were Somewhere Around Barstow: Lake Havasu City, Arizona, 2011”, in London Bridge in America: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing, London: Jonathan Cape, pages 240–241",
          "text": "In the days immediately after the bridge opened in 1971, the shadowy figure of a woman in a long Victorian black dress was reputedly seen walking over the bridge. Press articles from the period wondered, though never especially seriously, if this might be the transplanted ghost of a jilted Miss Havisham-esque bride who had committed suicide, or a murdered cockney prostitute whose body was dumped in the Thames.",
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          "ref": "2015, Alison May, Sweet Nothing (21st Century Bard series; book 1), Choc Lit, chapter nineteen, page 112",
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