a. [See -ESQUE.] Characteristic of, or in the style of, the Italian painter Correggio.

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1760.  Ann. Reg., 252. Among us, any action that is singularly graceful, is termed Correggiesque.

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1801–15.  Fuseli, Lect. Art, viii. (1848), 514. The far more than Correggiesque graces of female forms.

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  So † Correggiescity, Correggiosity, the characteristic style of Correggio.

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1761.  Sterne, Tr. Shandy, III. xii. 59–60. There is nothing of … the corregiescity of Corregio.

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1848.  Mrs. Jameson, Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850), 5. Of the grace of Raphael, and of the Correggiosity of Correggio.

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