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macabre
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In works of art , macabre ( or ; ) is the quality of having a grim or ghastly atmosphere. Macabre works emphasize the details and symbols of death . The term also refers to works particularly gruesome in nature.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
macabre \macabre\ (m[.a]*k[aum]"b[~e]r) adj. portraying human injury or death in a way so as to inspiring shock or horror; gruesome; ghastly; as, macabre tortures conceived by madmen. [Also spelled macaber .] Syn: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, lurid. Pertaining ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., originally in reference to a kind of morality show or allegorical representation of death and his victims, from Old French (danse) Macabré "(dance) of Death" (1376), of uncertain origin, probably a translation of Medieval Latin (Chorea) Machabæorum ...
Usage examples of macabre.
But Frederick West certainly marked another macabre anniversary in April 1975.
He gazed sourly about him, thinking of the macabre figure in the ceiba tree and the scarlet pulp of what had been a living face.
The decaying forms of Deep Fields reared up in response to the unaccustomed noise, detached arms and legs, wheels and gears, spinning and cavorting, tumbling and twirling in a Danse Macabre such as Deep Fields had never seen.
Once we got to Danse Macabre, all bets would be off, but then people expected decadence at a vampire-run dance club.
The vampires at Guilty Pleasures and Danse Macabre would sometimes use group mind tricks to make performers appear in the midst of the human audience.
Gazing at its dirty waters, Erast Fandorin shivered as he was inexplicably seized by some macabre presentiment.
And a silent corps of servitors began the macabre task of lifting the expellees from the ooze where they had died.
Lot 126 was a five-year-old hurdler which someone with a macabre sense of humor had named Hearse Puller, and in a way one could see why.
The type of macabre humor every Necromance and cop used to distance him or herself from the horror of what people could do to each other with gun and knife and club.
Rhulad said, resuming his pacing, the macabre clicking sounds of coin edges snapping together the only sound to follow his pronouncement.
Despite the grisly horrors, including headless corpses and clanking chains and haunted crypts, with which she spiced her macabre tales, Pippin was of a sensible turn of mind, a fact that she secretly mourned.
Her dull eyes widened at sight of the tall black horse bestridden by the finely-clad man in the macabre mask.
On its face, it sounded like a macabre thing to say, especially when one blurted it out for no discernible reason.
He was human but a freak, his skull so malformed that it proved God had strange, macabre moments.
A thoroughly macabre pertinacity had marked the attaining of his practical joke.