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- adjective Resembling a
womb oruterus in shape or function - adjective Resembling an infant's experience of the womb
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's some excellent contemporary work here, including Anish Kapoor's fleshy, womblike "Untitled," with its layerings of pigment and red gouache.
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Colomb is womblike, all drip-feed beats and muffled clicks, while I Got a Woman combines a vocal sample from the Ray Charles song of the same name with extravagant piano flourishes and rib-rattling, slo-mo beats.
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Marx at least metaphorically accounts for how the architecture of churches, temples, synagogues, and mosques calm us with their womblike embrace and protection -- being the richly ornamented receptacles of narcotic enablement they are.
G. Roger Denson: The Dark Side of Beauty: The Mosque As "Terror Cell" G. Roger Denson 2010
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To Zellmer this dependence was a threatening loss of identity,71 but other men seem to have found comfort in the womblike interiors of bomber planes.
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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He paused in front of the big tank—it was only for a moment but it felt like an eternity—and beheld his friend suspended in the green solution, in womblike silence, kept alive by the intravenous drip, a living, breathing trophy.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Marx at least metaphorically accounts for how the architecture of churches, temples, synagogues, and mosques calm us with their womblike embrace and protection -- being the richly ornamented receptacles of narcotic enablement they are.
G. Roger Denson: The Dark Side of Beauty: The Mosque As "Terror Cell" G. Roger Denson 2010
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With his argument bookended, in effect, by Goethe and Bram Stoker, Kittler could be taken to claim that in Dracula the womblike maternal orality that forms the basis of literacy training and the literary muse alike in the romantic discourse of 1800 must, a century later, return to the tomb of mute transcription.
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Marx at least metaphorically accounts for how the architecture of churches, temples, synagogues, and mosques calm us with their womblike embrace and protection -- being the richly ornamented receptacles of narcotic enablement they are.
G. Roger Denson: The Dark Side of Beauty G. Roger Denson 2010
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In fact, the thing strikes me as very feminine, almost womblike, which makes sense as Ducasse's inspiration for it (and much of his cooking) comes from that of his grandmother, who would send a young Alain into the garden every day at noon to pick the onions, leeks and new potatoes that would become lunch.
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Marx at least metaphorically accounts for how the architecture of churches, temples, synagogues, and mosques calm us with their womblike embrace and protection -- being the richly ornamented receptacles of narcotic enablement they are.
G. Roger Denson: The Dark Side of Beauty G. Roger Denson 2010
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