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Word: Grotesque
Speech Type: Adjective
mid 16th century (as noun): from French crotesque (the earliest form in English), from Italian grottesca, from opera or pittura grottesca ‘work or painting resembling that found in a grotto’; ‘grotto’ here probably denoted the rooms of ancient buildings in Rome which had been revealed by excavations, and which contained murals in the grotesque style
ɡrə(ʊ)ˈtɛsk
comically or repulsively ugly or distorted
Short Definition:ugly or distorted
Examples:- a figure wearing a grotesque mask
Word: Grotesque
Speech Type: Noun
ɡrə(ʊ)ˈtɛsk
a very ugly or comically distorted figure or image
Short Definition:grotesque figure or image
Examples:- the rods are carved in the form of a series of gargoyle faces and grotesques
a family of 19th-century sans serif typefaces.
Short Definition:family of sans serif typefaces
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