monkish

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Festival organizers say they’ll have at least 350 choices on tap, including a variety of breweries that are not usually available in the Washington area, such as Toppling Goliath, the Alchemist, Threes, Monkish and Equilibrium.

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2018

This is Monk at his most Monkish: essential stuff.

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2012

Mr. DeJohnette sidled over to a piano to stab at some Monkish chords.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2010

The themes often move in unexpected directions, and Escreet peremptorily adds a Thelonious Monkish, note-prodding percussiveness to lines that seem at first to be unfolding with a methodically interweaving nu-jazz deliberation.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2010

Which is to be read as Monkish Latin, like ‘Dies Iræ,’ etc., retaining the Italian value of the Vowels, not the Classical. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis