“grotesquerie”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

grotesquerie

释义

grotesquerie|grəʊˈtɛskərɪ|
Also grotesquery.
[as if a. F. *grotesquerie, f. grotesque grotesque.]
Grotesque objects collectively; grotesque quality; a piece of grotesqueness.
1654–66Ld. Orrery Parthenissa (1676) 517 In a large Compartiment composed of Groteskery were seen Sphynxes, Harpyes, the Claws of Lyons and Tygers, to evidence that within inhabited Mysteries and Riddles.1862R. Taylor Home & Abr. Ser ii. II. 339 Where so much is beautiful, the occasional anomalies and grotesqueries of taste fail to offend you.1877‘H. A. Page’ De Quincy I. v. 92 Casting a ‘jet’ of gentle humour over the grim grotesquerie of the situation.1878Bayne Purit. Rev. iii. 59 The incidents..of waking existence are therein..tossed and heaped together as the materials of a wild grotesquerie.1880Howells Undisc. Country xiii. 197 She showed her sense of degradation in the brutal grotesquery.1885Manch. Exam. 22 July 3/2 The inventive grotesquerie of his [Gustave Doré's] later work.

英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。

相关内容：

“grotesquerie”的英文意思

“线段描述”英文翻译

“线圈天线”英文翻译

“underbeard”的英文意思

“underarm”的英文意思

“under-arm”的英文意思

相关推荐