Grotesques [noun]

Definition of Grotesques:

something, someone very abnormal

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Sentence/Example of Grotesques:

Dear friend, I take advantage of the "Histoires grotesques et srieuses" to remind myself of you.

Imbedded in these grotesques of sandstone were fossils of wood, of fresh-water shells, and of fishes.

Evidently Vitruvius did not approve of grotesques, and his contemporary criticism is most valuable and amusing.

Vitreous grotesques shimmered like a forest of aspens quivering in wind and sunlight.

Puritan Bernard thundered against the bizarre grotesques carved in cloisters.

Leeway was allowed the artistic imagination, which here ran largely to grotesques.

When real human beings have real delights they tend to express them entirely in grotesques—I might almost say entirely in goblins.

Its transverse ribs are caught along the wall on corbels carved with grotesques.

It is blued and decorated at the borders with bands on which are chiselled flowing scrolls, animals, grotesques, &c.

He had a bold and fertile genius, adapted to large historical frescos, in which he introduced fine architecture and grotesques.