Disneyesque, a.
(ˌdɪznɪˈɛsk)
[f. the name of Walter Elias Disney (1901–66), American cartoonist + -esque.]
Having the characteristics or resembling the style of an animated cartoon made by Walt Disney or his company. So ˈDisneyland, the name of a large amusement park near Los Angeles, devised by Walt Disney, applied transf. to any fantastic or fanciful land or place; a never-never land.
| 1939 Auden & Isherwood Journey to War ii. 63 Lady Precious Stream utters some piercing, Disneyesque sounds. 1956 A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 170 The Mother of the greeting cards inhabits a delicious Disneyland, where everything is syrup and Technicolor, cuteness and schmalz. 1961 Guardian 3 Nov. 8/3 There are moments when the animal kingdom threatens to turn into Disneyland. 1963 P. H. Johnson Night & Silence xxxiii. 237 Already all over America these pretty, Disneyesque buildings proliferated. |