Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - macabre
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You describe something such as an event or story as macabre when it is strange and horrible or upsetting, usually because it involves death or injury. Police have made a macabre discovery... = chilling ADJ: usu ADJ n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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adjective Etymology: French, from (danse) ~ dance of death, from Middle French (danse de) Macabre Date: 1889 1. having death as a subject ; comprising or including a personalized representation of death 2. dwelling on the gruesome 3. tending to produce horror in a beholder Synonyms: see ghastly ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. grim, gruesome. Etymology: ME f. OF macabr{eacute} perh. f. Macab{eacute} a Maccabee, with ref. to a miracle play showing the slaughter of the Maccabees ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. мрачный, жуткий the macabre atmosphere of the vault —- мрачная атмосфера (обстановка) склепа 2. относящийся к смерти dance macabre —- танец смерти ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- c.1430, from M.Fr. (danse) Macabrй "(dance) of Death," probably a translation of M.L. (Chorea) Machabaeorum, lit. "dance of the Maccabees" (leaders of the Jewish revolt against Syro-Hellenes c.166 B.C.E.). The association with the dance of death seems to be via vivid descriptions of the martyrdom of the Macabees in the Apocryphal books. The abstracted sense of "gruesome" is first attested 1842 in Fr., 1889 in Eng. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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