Brewer's: Dantesque

(2 syl.). Dante-like—that is, a minute life-like representation of the infernal horrors, whether by words, as in the poet, or in visible form, as in Doré's illustrations of the Inferno.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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