Cinderellan

English

Etymology

From Cinderella +‎ -an.

Adjective

Cinderellan (comparative more Cinderellan, superlative most Cinderellan)

  1. Alternative form of Cinderellian.
    • 1888 May 16, “They Love Americans […]”, in W. H. Canon, editor, Northern Wisconsin News, volume 10, number 19, Merrill, Wis., page [7], column 1:
      Their figures are universally models for brunette Venuses, and their feet arched like rainbows, and Cinderellan in size.
    • 2012, George Melrod, “Rachel Lachowicz: The Makeup Artist”, in Rachel Lachowicz, Seattle, Wash.: Marquand Books, →ISBN, page 13:
      These varied from a Cinderellan serial arrangement of elegant blown-glass slippers beside a pile of shattered glass (Broken Glass, 1992) […]
    • 2017, Anders Sörman-Nilsson, “Introduction”, in Seamless: A Hero’s Journey of Digital Disruption, Adaptation and Human Transformation, Milton, Qld.: John Wiley & Sons Australia, →ISBN, page xxviii:
      [T]his book maps the structure of the hero’s journey onto an analogue clock face, using the twelve steps to explore the journey to the destination of the planet of ‘Seamlessness’, moving from 1 o’clock to midnight (at which stage I hope this book doesn’t turn into a Cinderellan pumpkin).
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