compartmentlike

English

Etymology

compartment +‎ -like

Adjective

compartmentlike (comparative more compartmentlike, superlative most compartmentlike)

  1. Resembling a compartment.
    • 2007 February 9, Holland Cotter, “Modernist in Loincloth and Feathers”, in New York Times‎:
      His art and his story are like few others, and MoMA puts both across in an inspired installation: a single long corridor with compartmentlike rooms of paintings on each side, and at the very end, against a sea-green wall, a life-size doll with giant bat wings floating above her.

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