brobdingnagian

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Downstairs in the exhibition galleries is his related sculpture of a folding card-table and four metal chairs, rendered in not dissimilar Brobdingnagian proportions.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

The tile work crumbled from the Brobdingnagian pylons, but the square was alive.

From New York Times • May 11, 2020

“It was a Brobdingnagian grip-and-grin if there ever was one.”

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2018

A porch on the block is home to a massive drinking bird, a Brobdingnagian version of that novelty that sips from a glass.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2015

Given passenger pigeons’ Brobdingnagian appetites for mast and maize, one would expect that Indians would also have hunted them and wanted to keep down their numbers.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann