epitomal
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]epitomal (comparative more epitomal, superlative most epitomal)
- epitomic
- 1991 August 10, Michael Bronski, “'I Know You Are, But What Am I?'”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 4, page 6:
- Pee-wee Herman is a brilliant creation. He is the epitomal '50s nerd: overly fastidious and so repressed that his sexual energy keeps erupting in nervous giggles and snide, childish, quibbles. In his two-sizes-too-small gray suit and his slightly made-up face, he resembles nothing less than a contemporary Little Lord Fauntleroy crossed with Joel Grey in Cabaret.