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- adjective In a
gothic way.
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Examples
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The floor was a series of flat stones slightly raised from a stream of black, purling water that appeared to drop off precipitously on both sides before the curving stone walls rose to meet in a kind of gothically arched ceiling.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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As gothically gorgeous as it was/is, I passed it up sated by the monotony of daily sightseeing, and walked back to the hotel alone.
Shana Ting Lipton: Interactive Travel: From Sightseeing to People-Meeting Shana Ting Lipton 2011
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As gothically gorgeous as it was/is, I passed it up sated by the monotony of daily sightseeing, and walked back to the hotel alone.
Shana Ting Lipton: Interactive Travel: From Sightseeing to People-Meeting Shana Ting Lipton 2011
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On the quiet, my mind was filled with worldly ambition and an infatuation with a married man that was quite gothically excessive.
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True, it's gothically dark, but if you're confident, you can pull it off during the day, and, of course, a color this vampy was made to be worn early and often in the evenings.
Stephanie Green: Best Lipstick Colors for Fall Stephanie Green 2011
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From the peculiar vantage point of therapy, the restaurant had become gothically dark: stalactites poking from its ceiling, bats flying under the eaves.
THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010
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See, I love that this is such a unique, gothically-inspired cake without being in-your-face.
Sunday Sweets: The Undead Wed Jen 2009
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See, I love that this is such a unique, gothically-inspired cake without being in-your-face.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jen 2009
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But under just which heavy pall of gothically-tinged-greys are you living?
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Like Mary Robinson, George's desirous sighting — this time, however, based on her property-estate value as an heir-producer — also creates for Caroline, like Robinson, a financially insecure future that rescripts her from sentimental beloved to gothically disowned wife.
Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006
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