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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Marc Chagall (1887-1985), Russian-Jewish artist and pioneer of modernism, or his works.

Etymologies

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Chagall +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • But on the other hand, really, would a Gentile youth from the Bukovina know at once how to identify and name a “kupat kerem kayemet,” or collection-box for the redemption of Palestine, or be able to say of a Jewish woman’s bedroom that “it had too much Chagallian poetry”?

    The 2,000-Year-Old Panic 2008

  • But on the other hand, really, would a Gentile youth from the Bukovina know at once how to identify and name a “kupat kerem kayemet,” or collection-box for the redemption of Palestine, or be able to say of a Jewish woman’s bedroom that “it had too much Chagallian poetry”?

    The 2,000-Year-Old Panic 2008

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