Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - grotesque
Grotesque
grotesque
adj. & n. --adj. 1 comically or repulsively distorted; monstrous, unnatural. 2 incongruous, ludicrous, absurd. --n. 1 a decorative form interweaving human and animal features. 2 a comically distorted figure or design. 3 Printing a family of sanserif typefaces. Derivatives grotesquely adv. grotesqueness n. grotesquerie n. Etymology: earlier crotesque f. F crotesque f. It. grottesca grotto-like (painting etc.) fem. of grottesco (as GROTTO, -ESQUE)
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I. noun Etymology: Middle French & Old Italian; Middle French, from Old Italian (pittura) grottesca, literally, cave painting, feminine of grottesco of a cave, from grotta Date: 1561 1. a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature, a piece of work in this style, one that is ~, sans serif, II. adjective Date: 1603 of, relating to, or having the characteristics of the ~: as, fanciful, bizarre, absurdly incongruous, departing markedly from the natural, the expected, or the typical, see: fantastic ~ly adverb ~ness noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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