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Definition of Grotesqueries
1. grotesquerie [n] - See also: grotesquerie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grotesqueries
Literary usage of Grotesqueries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Think of ... the grotesqueries of Caliban and Trinculo. S. Lanier, The English
Novel, p. 285. Grotian (gro'shi-an), a. ..."
2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"CHAPTER XXIV ALL that midsummer month Carol was sensitive to Kennicott, She
recalled a hundred grotesqueries: her comic dismay at his having chewed tobacco, ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1891)
"The northern island is an amazement, but its gruesome volcanic grotesqueries
please less than the scenic splendours of its southern neighbour. ..."
4. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1920)
"... grotesqueries in The Fire Bird, has followed studiously in recent years in
the footsteps of Meyerhold in Petrograd, whether those steps led him into the ..."
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