Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
pylon or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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pylon + -like
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Examples
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The child-mother, the saintly virgin, needed the strong arm of her newly-grown son… woman was either a wicked witch or a helpless child whose tender arms reached out not in desire but in sweet gratitude for the brave, pylonlike chivalric constancy of her magnificent knight.
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He saw the pylonlike legs and knew how they had been fastened together and how they would therefore have to move.
The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998
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He saw the pylonlike legs and knew how they had been fastened together and how they would therefore have to move.
The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998
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