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グロテスク

グロテスク

Japanese

グロテスク (gurotesuku): Renaissance grotesque motifs.
グロテスク (gurotesuku): a grotesque (statue) at the University of Chicago.

Adjective

グロテスク (-na inflection, romaji gurotesuku)

  1. grotesque
    1. ugly, hideous
    2. relating to the grotesque style of art

Inflection

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Noun

グロテスク (romaji gurotesuku)

  1. someone or something grotesque
  2. the grotesque style of art: ornamental arrangements of arabesques with interlaced garlands and small and fantastic human and animal figures, usually set out in a symmetrical pattern around some form of framework
  3. a carved stone figure

References

  1. 1 2 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9