stage-setty

adj

adj

Etymology From stage set + -y.

Informal Resembling a stage set.

In his apartment complex, Thornberg Village (now called Normandy Village) in Berkeley of 1928, he took the conventional and rather dull H-shaped apartment plan and squeezed and pulled it apart so that we feel, in a "stage-setty" way, that we are in a Medieval village.1976, Sally Woodbridge, editor, Bay Area Houses, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 110:

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