Hemingwayan

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English

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Etymology

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From Hemingway +‎ -an.

Adjective

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Hemingwayan (comparative more Hemingwayan, superlative most Hemingwayan)

  1. Of or pertaining to Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist.
    • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 7, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
      We each had a bedroom, and there was a kitchenette with food in the icebox, and a huge living room where Major sat in his silk dressing gown composing his latest Hemingwayan short story []