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- noun Plural form of
grotesque .
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Examples
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Such arabesques are called grotesques by the ignorant.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910
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Such arabesques are called grotesques by the ignorant.
XXXI 1909
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Such arabesques are called grotesques by the ignorant.
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 1535
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For, although the said Giovanni and others have carried them to absolute perfection, it is none the less true that the chief praise is due to Morto, who was the first to bring them to light and to devote his whole attention to paintings of that kind, which are called grotesques because they were found for the most part in the grottoes of the ruins of Rome; besides which, every man knows that it is easy to make additions to anything once it has been discovered.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto Giorgio Vasari 1542
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Before shops had invaded its ground-floor, and advertisements had defaced the exquisite line of carvings just above, the Rez de chaussée had seven low arcades whose pilasters and windows were carved with medallions, candelabra, and "grotesques" in low relief.
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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"grotesques," I felt that he was opening for me new depths of experience, touching upon half-buried truths which nothing in my young life had prepared me for.
Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life Sherwood Anderson 1908
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It contains nothing fantastical, except for the mere overlarge size of the house in which the toadlike grotesques slump and commit arson or murder, and the world is more dreary, disenchanting, and mundane than our world, not less.
Voice Of The Fans: What Books Have You Stopped Reading? 2010
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His gallery of grotesques are a forerunner to those Chester Gould and Basil Wolverton would later excel in.
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Although, I have to take exception at the statement "His gallery of grotesques are a forerunner to those Chester Gould ..."
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Though his love of grotesques seemed to amp up, perhaps I was not ready for them.
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