grotesquery
grotesquery is the alternative form of grotesquerie.
Meaning of grotesquerie
Noun
grotesquerie (countable and uncountable, plural grotesqueries)
- An instance of grotesqueness, a grotesque thing.
- Grotesque things collectively.
- Grotesqueness, the quality of being grotesque or macabre.
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II...
- A genre of horror literature that was popular in the early 20th century, and practiced by writers such as Ambrose Bierce and Fritz Leiber.
Forms of grotesquery
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Origin of grotesquery
From grotesque + -ery, calquing French grotesquerie, q.v.
Questions about grotesquery
- What is grotesquery the alternative form of?
- Grotesquery is the alternative form of grotesquerie.
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