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    Grotesque
    See hybrid.
    Found op http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/resources/glossary.html
    
    
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    grotesque
    Extravagant decorative motif in which figures of humans, mythological beasts, birds, animals and sphinxes are used at the whim of the artist. The design elements are loosely linked by motifs such as intertwining scrolls, strapwork or foliage. Grotesque decoration was used in virtually every medium o...
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    Grotesque
    Gro·tesque' (gro*tĕsk') adjective [ French, from Italian grottesco , from grotta grotto. See Grotto .] Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike; wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular fo...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/61
    
    
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    Grotesque
    Gro·tesque noun 1. A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes. Dryden. 2. Artificial grotto-work.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/61
    
    
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    grotesque
    monstrous adjective distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; `tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas`; `twisted into monstrous shapes`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=grotesque
    
    
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    grotesque
    noun art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=grotesque
    
    
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    Grotesque
    • (n.) A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes. • (n.) Artificial grotto-work.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/grotesque/
    
    
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    grotesque
    (from the article `comedy`) ...are judged. To the extent that the professions prove hollow and the practices vicious, the ironic perception darkens and deepens. The element of ... ...theatre and anti-illusionism. In his production of Blok`s Fairground Booth (1906) and his subsequent writings on this...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/73
    
    
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    grotesque
    in architecture and decorative art, fanciful mural or sculptural decoration involving mixed animal, human, and plant forms. The word is derived from ... [3 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/73
    
    
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    grotesque
    grotesque 1. Characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion, as with appearance or manner. 2. Outlandish or bizarre, as in character or appearance. 3. Of, relating to, or being the grotesque style in art or a work executed in this style. 4. A style of painting, sculpture, and ornamentation ...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/3337/
    
    
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    Grotesque
    Fantastic human or animal forms used as decoration, engraved, chased or modelled. Often associated with intertwining scrollwork, flowers and foliage to produce bizarre or extravagant motifs.
    Found op http://freespace.virgin.net/a.data/glossaryframes.htm
    
    
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    Grotesque
    Derived from the term grotto which was used in the 16th century to describe the ruins of the Domus Aurea (Nero's palace in Rome). It describes painted or stucco decoration in a style frequent in ancient Rome which represented imaginary and fantastic motifs (plants interwoven with mythical or semi-hu...
    Found op http://www.arca.net/postcard/gourl.html?URL=http://www.arca.net/tourism/glo
    
    
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    Grotesque
    (It. grottesca, from grotta, grotto) The idealized ugly. In aesthetics, the beauty of fantastic exaggeration, traditionally achieved by combining foliate and animal or human figures, as for example those found in the classic Roman and Pompeiian palaces and reproduced by Raphael in the Vatican. -- J....
    Found op http://www.ditext.com/runes/g.html
    
    

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