What does madonnalike mean?
Madonnalike means rare spelling of Madonna-like.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
rare spelling of Madonna-like.
Her hair was raven black with a tantalizing suggestion of wave which relieved the oval face from the madonnalike look it had so often worn since her mother’s death.
Miss [Dolores] Costello herself is more ethereally beautiful than ever, the madonnalike quality of her loveliness having been heightened by her motherhood.
Contains marriage certificate, family record, and madonnalike picture of author’s wife and baby.
But through the veil he saw that beloved face, those madonnalike eyes radiant, and his heart was filled with an overwhelming joy.
One of the earliest of all the silent screen stars, Norma Talmadge played the serene, madonnalike beauty with unseen fires seething within—a sort of pre-World War I Grace Kelly.
They had been struck by the madonnalike picture of Aunt Greta with the little Mexican boy.
In China, this figure was transformed into a goddess of mercy, Kwan-Yin. Represented in a variety of gracious postures, often with a child, she expresses a madonnalike maternal feeling.
The fact that sexual perversion and all kinds of depravity were mentioned in connection with the sabotage group was difficult to reconcile with her madonnalike appearance and high ideals.
Use madonnalike when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Madonnalike means rare spelling of Madonna-like.
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Her hair was raven black with a tantalizing suggestion of wave which relieved the oval face from the madonnalike look it had so often worn since her mother’s death.
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