-esquesuff. In the manner of; resembling: Lincolnesque.[French, from Italian -esco, from Vulgar Latin *-iscus, of Germanic origin.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.-esque suffix forming adjectives indicating a specified character, manner, style, or resemblance: picturesque; Romanesque; statuesque; Chaplinesque. [via French from Italian -esco, of Germanic origin; compare -ish]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014-esque a suffix that forms adjectives having the meanings ?resembling,? ?in the style or manner of,? ?suggesting the work of? the person or thing denoted by the base word: Kafkaesque; Lincolnesque; picturesque. [