Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Ornamented with gargoyles.

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Examples

  • There are a few dirty, gargoyled buildings on the north side of 41st Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue which seem from a city entirely apart from the one found just 30 seconds to the north.

    Follow the Garment Racks Brooks of Sheffield 2006

  • There are a few dirty, gargoyled buildings on the north side of 41st Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue which seem from a city entirely apart from the one found just 30 seconds to the north.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2006

  • Within, you walk the clattering flags of its dim, long aisles; without, you peer aloft to view its gargoyled waterspouts, leering down like nightmares caught in the very act of leering and congealed into stone.

    Europe Revised 1910

  • Bunions and gout combined to give it a gargoyled effect!

    The Story of My Life Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1908

  • From the gargoyled keep which the cultured enthusiasm of Eleanor and the purse of her father had recently erected at Lincoln Lodge, the brother and sister looked over a bend of the river, half a mile of valley road,

    Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large 1907

  • FROM the gargoyled keep which the cultured enthusiasm of Eleanor and the purse of her father had recently erected at Lincoln Lodge, the brother and sister looked over a bend of the river, half a mile of valley road, a wave of forest country, and the greater billows of the bare hillsides towering beyond.

    Count Bunker 1905

  • She crossed a bridge to the Ile de la Cité, and came to the gargoyled portals of Notre Dame, and let herself be drawn through the open door, and all the gloom and glory of the building fell around her like a soothing caress.

    The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

  • It is a monument of Gothic insecurity, all turreted, and gargoyled, and slashed, and bedizened with half a score of architectural fancies.

    An Inland Voyage 1878

  • Crested at its summit, like a feudal helmet, with two colossal fishes of bronze lifting their curved bodies skyward from either angle of the roof, and bristling with horned gables and gargoyled eaves and tilted puzzles of tiled roofing at every story, the creation is a veritable architectural dragon, made up of magnificent monstrosities -- a dragon, moreover, full of eyes set at all conceivable angles, above below, and on every side.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • It is a monument of Gothic insecurity, all turreted, and gargoyled, and slashed, and bedizened with half a score of architectural fancies.

    An Inland Voyage Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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