|dälē|esk, |dal-, |dȧl- adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Salvador Dali b 1904 Spanish painter + English -esque
: resembling or suggesting the painting of the surrealist artist Dali : befitting the exotic contents of such painting
a pair of feathers stuck at a Daliesque angle in holes pierced in each nostril — Time
a Daliesque landscape of stunted pines, twisted cripples of the tree world, and strangely shaped gray-black rocks — Maud Oakes