Madonnalike

Madonnalike (comparative more Madonnalike, superlative most Madonnalike)

1. rare spelling of Madonna-like
   • 1969, Peter Dickinson, The Old English Peep Show, New York, N.Y., Evanston, Ill.: Harper & Row, →LCCN, page 128:

     […] still less was any face that rounded, Madonnalike softness in which the Indian sculptors had expressed the sanctities of lust.

   • 1970, Ann Raymond Campbell, “Paul Gauguin”, in Paintings: How to Look at Great Art, New York, N.Y., London: Franklin Watts, →ISBN, page 116:

     He [Paul Gauguin] was a religious man, and many of the women he painted had a Madonnalike quality.

   • 1977, Carol Schiro Greenwald, “Group Access and Climate Control”, in Group Power: Lobbying and Public Policy, New York, N.Y.: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, part II (Building Access to the Policy Process), chapter section “The Language of Grass Roots Campaigns”, page 101:

     Or the March of Dimes, which researches cures for birth defects, solicits public sympathy with a Madonnalike portrait of a loving mother and her perfectly formed baby.

   • 1977, Diane E. Turner, “The Mythic Vision in Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real”, in Jac Tharpe, editor, Tennessee Williams: A Tribute, Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 249:

     The Streetcleaners surround him, as the Titans around Prometheus, and ritually beat him to death. La Madrecita, Madonnalike, is present at the execution.