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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
neoclassical
adjective
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▪ But Caster and several other longtime tenants begged that the building be spared because of its unusual neoclassical design and rare charm.
▪ If one opts to play by neoclassical rules, as Lipsey in particular had, one should read the neoclassical rule book first.
▪ It was on this work that Josiah Wedgwood based his neoclassical pottery designs.
▪ Naturally, neoclassical economists will stand aghast at what they regard as an unwarranted political intrusion into the realm of positive economics.
▪ No need to ponder stuff like neoclassical, traditional, deconstructionist or what the dancers should wear on their feet.
▪ Rather it is neoclassical, and resembles a lyceum more than a church.
▪ This great neoclassical house had been reprieved from imminent demolition in 1972 by ministers and taken into guardianship two years later.
▪ This is a similar conclusion to that of the neoclassical synthesis except that there is no scope for the Keynes effect to operate.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neoclassical

Neoclassic \Ne`o*clas"sic\, Neoclassical \Ne`o*clas"si*cal\, a. Belonging to, or designating, the modern revival or adaptation of classical, esp. Greco-Roman, style, taste and manner of work in architecture, arts, literature, etc.

Wiktionary
neoclassical

a. Of pertaining to a style of architecture based on classical models, especially such a style of the 18th century.

WordNet
neoclassical

adj. characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style [syn: neoclassic]

Usage examples of "neoclassical".

She also found two pieces she knew Max would love: a Biedermeier games table with graceful swan supports and an Austrian neoclassical mantel clock, beautifully arched and columned, that perfectly complemented his collection.

In the sensational neoclassical gymnasium he thought he saw them lurking behind the homoerotic Greek bronzes.

Pure gift exchange coexisted with a monetary exchange, in which neoclassical market rationality, that is to say the profit mechanism, was bracketed and contained by society to direct it to serve higher values, such as justice and freedom.

All three and the Two Greeks, their neoclassical rivals across the street, had been owned by coofs, rich mainlanders who were not on the Island at the time of the Event.

An hour later, Kitty was pulling into the circular brick drive in front of the funeral chapel--a whitecolumned, neoclassical affectation plunked like a scaleddown antebellum mansion in the stucco heart of old Miramonte.

In a modest cluster of narrow streets on a slope just enough out of the city centre to have escaped the bulldozer, there still stand some three dozen large and striking warehouses, mostly built between 1860 and 1874 in a confident neoclassical style that makes them look like merchant banks rather than wool sheds, which together make up the area known as Little Germany.