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Gothic Lolita

Gothic Lolita noun: a Japanese fashion movement whose adherents dress in an elegant, largely monochromatic style with traditional accoutrements such as parasols.

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Noun

Gothic Lolita (uncountable)

  1. A Japanese fashion movement whose adherents dress in an elegant, largely monochromatic style with traditional accoutrements such as parasols.

Origin of Gothic Lolita

From Japanese ゴスロリ (gosurori), a blend of ゴス (Goth, “Goth”) + ロリータ (lolita), from English lolita.

Questions about Gothic Lolita

What does Gothic Lolita mean?
Gothic Lolita means a Japanese fashion movement whose adherents dress in an elegant, largely monochromatic style with traditional accoutrements such as parasols.
What part of speech is Gothic Lolita?
Gothic Lolita is a noun.

Words near Gothic Lolita in the dictionary

  1. Gothic arches
  2. Gothic double
  3. Gothic doubles
  4. gothic fiction
  5. gothic horror
  6. Gothic Lolita
  7. gothic metal
  8. gothic rock
  9. gothically
  10. Gothicise
  11. Gothicised

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