gothic
哥特式,哥特式的,哥德式,歌特式
Definitions
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- : noting or pertaining to a style of architecture, originating in France in the middle of the 12th century and existing in the western half of Europe through the middle of the 16th century, characterized by the use of the pointed arch and the ribbed vault, by the use of fine woodwork and stonework, by a progressive lightening of structure, and by the use of such features as flying buttresses, ornamental gables, crockets, and foils.
- : pertaining to or designating the style of painting, sculpture, etc., produced between the 13th and 15th centuries, especially in northern Europe, characterized by a tendency toward realism and interest in detail.
- : of or relating to Goths or their language.
- : of or relating to the music, especially of northern Europe, of the period roughly from 1200 to 1450, including that of the Ars Antiqua, Ars Nova, and the Burgundian school.
- : pertaining to the Middle Ages; medieval.
- : barbarous or crude.
- : noting or pertaining to a style of literature characterized by a gloomy setting, grotesque, mysterious, or violent events, and an atmosphere of degeneration and decay: 19th-century Gothic novels.
- : being of a genre of contemporary fiction typically relating the experiences of an often ingenuous heroine imperiled, as at an old mansion, where she typically becomes involved with a stern or mysterious but attractive man.
- : noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script introduced for the writing of Gothic by Ulfilas and derived by him from Greek uncials with the addition of some Latin and some invented letters.
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- : the arts and crafts of the Gothic period.
- : the extinct Germanic language of the Goths, preserved especially in the 4th-century translation by Ulfilas of the Bible. Abbreviations: Goth, Goth.
- : a story, play, film, or other work in the gothic style.
- : British. black letter.
- : a square-cut printing type without serifs or hairlines.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Sharp, stormy and rife with new-age Gothic romance, The Wife Upstairs is not quite a retelling, though it shows off customary parallels with Charlotte Brontë’s story.
They also picnicked by the little Gothic ruin built by Queen Victoria.
It has a lot of those Gothic elements you see in Turn of the Screw, but it also did something different, something that I had never seen.
Northanger Abbey, after all, parodies the tropes and excesses of sentimental Gothic novels.
Visitors are greeted by a looming gothic gate, the kind used to signify that important residents lie behind its spires.
Tonally, however, it is very peculiar: It is undeniably Southern Gothic, but it has its own brand of off-beat humor.
I encountered The Mysteries of Udolpho when I took a Gothic novel course as a student at St. Andrews in Scotland.
One of the coolest things about the class was that we were discussing the Gothic novel in real Gothic buildings.
Below the great gothic windows spreads the awning of a café, which takes up all the ground floor.
It was an antique, half-Gothic, half-Saracenic looking edifice, which they now approached.
It is built in the Gothic style, with a fine large tower rising above half-a-dozen smaller ones.