Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bizarre quality.
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- noun The state or measure of being
bizarre . - noun A
bizarre thing.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And the queer part was, that Pickman got none of his power from the use of selectiveness or bizarrerie.
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Though it's possible to gain some of the benefits of bizarrerie with an umbrella, the true aspirant to affectation's highest lists will employ a device that is unserviceable, in fact ruined, in actual weather conditions.
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Other points of view opened in succession; now a full one, of the front of the old castle, and now a side glimpse at its particular towers; the former rich in all the bizarrerie of the Elizabethan school, while the simple arid solid strength of other parts of the building seemed to show that they had been raised more for defence than ostentation.
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Other points of view opened in succession; now a full one, of the front of the old castle, and now a side glimpse at its particular towers; the former rich in all the bizarrerie of the Elizabethan school, while the simple arid solid strength of other parts of the building seemed to show that they had been raised more for defence than ostentation.
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It confirms what the bizarrerie of Eight Legs itself implies, that Freud's extravagant realism is at root a near cousin to Surrealism.
The Way to All Flesh Bell, Julian 2008
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Or the star turn of Mildred Pierce (1945), or the unclassifiable bizarrerie of Johnny Guitar (1954), or her ravaged vulnerability in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Put Away the Wire Hangers: Joan Crawford���s Hungry Heart Exposed 2008
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Fancy, in this sense, falls a little short of oddity (bizarrerie) and caprice.
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It was a freak of fancy in my friend (for what else shall I call it?) to be enamored of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon.
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But Azrael's bizarrerie was of an entirely different order.
Spirits White As Lightning Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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It was often the term applied to bizarrerie -- it was fashionable to draw naïvely, as it was called.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
vendingmachine commented on the word bizarrerie
"Though it's possible to gain some of the benefits of bizarrerie with an umbrella, the true aspirant to affectation's highest lists will employ a device that is unserviceable, in fact ruined, in actual weather conditions."--Jilly Gagnon
July 10, 2015