a. [See -ESQUE.] Approximating to the Corinthian style.
1837. Sir F. Palgrave, Merch. & Friar, iii. (1844), 101. Ranges of massy pillars, crowned with rude Corinthianesque capitals.
1879. Sir G. G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. 77. That perfectly Byzantine variety of the Corinthianesque type.