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(satellite adjective) (literature) characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'" |
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(adjective) of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations" |
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(adjective) of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation" |
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(noun) a style of architecture developed in N France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches |
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Synonyms: Gothic architecture |
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Related Words: English-Gothic, English-Gothic architecture, architectural style, perpendicular, perpendicular style, style of architecture, type of architecture |
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(noun) a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries |
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Synonyms: black letter |
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Related Words: face, font, fount, typeface |
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(noun) extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas |
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Related Words: East Germanic, East Germanic language |
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(satellite adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating" |
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Synonyms: mediaeval, medieval |
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