Definitions
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- n. Plural form of grotesque.
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Examples
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Such arabesques are called grotesques by the ignorant.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Though his love of grotesques seemed to amp up, perhaps I was not ready for them.
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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.
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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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The beautifully presented exhibit begins with smaller pieces of armor, shields and helmets, some together with the original drawings for their mythological and historical motifs—Neptune and Hercules, Trojan heroes, fantastic animals and grotesques, sometimes enveloped in swirls of foliage.
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There will be galleries devoted to her photographs inspired by fashion characters and anti-fashion imagery, as well as her grotesques and dark carnival figures.
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