a style of architecture developed in northern 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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gothic::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | gothic architecture |
| Type of | style of architecture, architectural style, type of architecture |
| Has types | perpendicular style, perpendicular, english-gothic architecture, english-gothic |
gothic::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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gothic novels like `Frankenstein'.
gothic::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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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| Type of | east germanic language, east germanic |
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Examples of gothic
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And it's certainly arrestingly atmospheric, with a mood of almost gothic horror.
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Architect Francesco da Mosto and the gothic domes of the Basillica di San Marco.
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Raise your eyes and the magnificent gothic edifices of the Raj seem hardly real.
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The 1925 Republic Building was designed by a gothic-inspired G. Meredith Musick.
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If you go down to the woods this Easter you might find a grand gothic fairytale.
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My favorite impostor narrative is actually one of America's first gothic novels.
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Gothic used a stress accent rather than the pitch accent of proto-Indo-European.
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With the restoration in 19th century in Neo-gothic style it lost former harmony.
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Maupassant used elements derived from the gothic novel in stories like Le Horla.
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- Characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German
- 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
- Of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation"
- A heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
- A style of architecture developed in northern 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
- Medieval: as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating"
- Gothic is the second full-length album released by British heavy metal band Paradise Lost.
- Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.
- Gothic is a 1986 film directed by Ken Russell. It starred Gabriel Byrne as Lord Byron, Julian Sands as Percy Bysshe Shelley, the beautiful Natasha Richardson (in her first major film role) as Mary Shelley and Timothy Spall as Dr John William Polidori. ...
