Hogwartsesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hogwartsesque
form: most Hogwartsesque
Senses: examples: text: The first X-Men movie already showed a Hogwartsesque Xavier school, and I'm pretty sure that preceded any involvement by Morrison in the comics.
ref: 2005 January 8, Bill Svitavsky, “Astonishing X-Men # 7--It's allwrite.”, in rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe (Usenet):
text: Snobbery and sex are long-term inhabitants at Tatham’s – the arcane, Hogwartsesque institution based on Winchester College where Gale went to school.
ref: 2006, Carolyn Hart, “The World of Friendly Fire”, in Patrick Gale, Friendly Fire, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 5:
text: I am at pains to point out that he is going to a state school so any poshness is entirely free and unavoidable. Although it does have a separate manor house for the 6th formers which is a bit Hogwartsesque.
ref: 2007 July 12, bren, “Re: My First Grandaughter :)”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet):
text: The five sunny rooms overlook the manicured grounds; two are reached via a Hogwartsesque spiral staircase, and breakfast is served in the 16th-century dining hall with its original stone hearth and Victorian range.
ref: 2009, David Else, Oliver Berry, Fionn Davenport, Belinda Dixon, Peter Dragicevich, Nana Luckham, Etain O’Carroll, Neil Wilson, England, 5th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 741, column 2:
text: Buildings include a Victorian chapel, elegant Georgiana, seventies girls’ school and a Hogwartsesque panelled dining hall, with a glitter ball still hanging from the rafters after the parents’ disco.
ref: 2010, The Good Schools Guide, 15th edition, Lucas Publications, →ISBN, pages 401–402:
text: New addition Kathy Bates plays real historical New Orleans slave master and serial killer Delphine LaLaurie, a women^([sic]) far more terrifying than her role in Misery, although for the moment she seems to be safely under the control of the “Supreme” Fiona (Jessica Lange), a witch of unusual power. Fiona has returned to the Academy with the aim of teaching the younger generation of witches (Emma Roberts, Taissa Farmiga and Gabourey Sidibe) how to stand up for themselves, much to the irritation of her daughter Cordelia (Sarah Paulson), the school’s current headmistress. If that sounds cosily Hogwartsesque, it definitely isn’t.
ref: 2013 November 6, Ellen E Jones, “Last Night’s Viewing”, in The Independent, number 8448, page 45:
text: So like every little boy who has ever been impressed by its Hogwartsesque buildings and impressive facilities, I chose Dulwich, to the rapturous applause of my father.
ref: 2015, Mireille Galinou, The Dulwich Notebook, Your London Publishing, →ISBN, page 102:
text: Rome’s ‘propogation of the faith’ museum is housed in a 17th-century baroque masterpiece designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, and is an opportunity to peer into Bernini’s wooden, Hogwartsesque library, with its ceiling carved with Barberini bees, and Borromini’s Chapel of the Magi, where the Wise Men’s Epiphany acts an allegory for converts to Christianity.
ref: 2016, Abigail Blasi, Duncan Garwood, Rome, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 105, column 2:
text: It’s all a bit of a come-down to Alex, who until recently studied in the Hogwartsesque ambiance of Oxford University, then toiled in a blue-chip investment bank’s opulent London headquarters.
ref: 2016, Charles Stross, The Nightmare Stacks, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 36:
text: Both use the first morning to divide campers into groups of no more than five. This, along with a coach, is your group. It is possible to move between groups, but no one has ever joined or left the six groups I’ve been in. There’s no Hogwartsesque sorting hat, but there might as well be; the coaches are that good. Sorting happens early the first day of camp: […]
ref: 2017 December 5, Dina Mishev, “Back to school: For veteran powder-chaser, Elevate Women’s Ski Camp in Wyoming reveals there are many more lessons to be learned”, in Idaho Statesman, volume 153, number 133, page 2C, column 4:
text: USC Village dining hall, commonly referred to as McCarthy due to its proximity to the honors college, has a Hogwartsesque aura, drawing students from all parts of campus.
ref: 2021 August 24, Nora Miller, “Guide to USC dining hall favorites”, in Daily Trojan, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2021:
glosses: Alternative form of Hogwarts-esque.