looksake

noun

looksake

noun

Etymology From look + sake or look's + sake, modelled after namesake, name's sake.

1

Rare An individual who looks like or is reminiscent of another; a doppelganger.

  • Despite the awkward weight of the pack, Kikun climbed the crumbly stone face like his looksake garden lizard going up a wall; Rose followed more slowly, grumbling all the way.1991, Jo Clayton, Shadowkill:
  • Franny, or her looksake, was walking in a southeasterly direction when she had disappeared from sight.2014, G. Zimmerman, Verdure, page 250:
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  • Wherever you are, I know that you're at peace and so I should be, too. That you watch over me, your “looksake,” as you do all your forebears, intervening on my behalf with God probably more often than polite.2014, Nina Foxx, A Letter for My Mother, page 123:

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