gothic style
81Gothic — A European movement beginning in France. Gothic sculpture emerged c. 1200, Gothic painting later in the thirteenth century. The artwork are characterized by a linear, graceful, elegant style more naturalistic than that which had existed… …
82gothic — a literary or film style characterized by dark and dreary influences, such as ghouls, the supernatural, the grotesque, deathly forces, and the mysterious. Settings include old mansions, castles, and a threatened heroine. Often used in reference …
83Gothic — adj. Gothic is used with these nouns: ↑arch, ↑architecture, ↑cathedral, ↑fiction, ↑novel, ↑splendour, ↑style, ↑tale, ↑tower …
84GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE — a varied style of architecture distinguished by its high and sharply pointed arches, clustered columns, which had its origin in the Middle Ages, and prevailed from the 12th to the 15th centuries, though the term Gothic was originally applied… …
85Gothic — Term for a style of European architecture in the 12c to the 16c, most familiar in cathedrals with flying buttresses and pointed windows; broadly, the distinctive medieval style; the term is 17c and was then intended to be derogatory, as the Goths …
86Gothic — Goth·ic || gɒθɪk adj. of or pertaining to the Goths or their language; of or pertaining to a style of medieval architecture characterized by pointed arches and vaulting; of or pertaining to the artistic style of medieval northern Europe;… …
87gothic rock — noun a style of music developing in the late 1970s out of punk rock, with lyrics and imagery often referring to morbid or mystical ideas …
88Gothic Lolita — noun A Japanese fashion movement whose adherents dress in an elegant, largely monochromatic style with traditional accoutrements such as parasols …
89gothic — Goth·ic || gɒθɪk n. artistic style of medieval northern Europe (including architecture, painting, music, etc.); extinct Germanic language of the Goths …
90Gothic — the architectural style of the later middle ages, based on the pointed arch and construction by a skeletal framework rather than mass …
