a. [f. prec. + -ESQUE: cf. picturesque.] April-like; mercurial.

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1856.  Putnam’s Monthly Mag., July, 81/2. Sally herself was Aprilesque, as usual. Sometimes crying, oftener smiling….

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1862.  Rachel L. B——, in Godey’s Mag., Oct., 363/2. Wind was romping an Aprilesque game around the house.

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1880.  Echo, 11 Dec., 2/6. Quite an Aprilesque balm in the air.

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1910.  W. R. Yeakel, in Kansas News-Democrat, 14 April, 1/3.

        Betwixt the March of spirit motion
    And May of boundless blessings,
Our lives, midst Aprilesque emotion,
    Grow grander by distressings.

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