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Grotesque building carving
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gargoyle
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And where the old gargoyles are now crumbling away, attempts are being made to replace them, expensive though this is. ▪ The buildings, square and stout, were trimmed in white terra-cotta and topped by gargoyles representing ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters. 2 Any decorative carved grotesque figure on a building. 3 A fictional winged monster. 4 (context slang pejorative English) An ugly woman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"grotesque carved waterspout," connected to the gutter of a building to throw down water clear of the wall, common in 13c.-16c. buildings; late 13c., gargoile , also garguile , gargule , etc., "carved mouth of a rain spout, a gargoyle," from Old French ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gargoyle \Gar"goyle\, n. [OE. garguilie, gargouille, cf. Sp. g['a]rgola, prob. fr. the same source as F. gorge throat, influenced by L. gargarizare to gargle. See Gorge and cf. Gargle , Gargarize .] (Arch.) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of ...
Usage examples of gargoyle.
Gargoyles and cherubin were carved in stately rows around its cornice, while Corinthian columns held the four porticos at the cardinal compass points.
Snow clung to its gargoyles and crochets, doorcases and window ledges, outlining the Victorian ornamentation in white.
No, I have no quatrefoils, rosettes, gussets, gargoyles or Mexican drawnwork on my house, not even a caryatid.
And before Goya you have to go back to the mediaeval chaps who did the gargoyles and chimaeras on Notre Dame and Mont Saint-Michel.
When she was done, she climbed onto the head of a gargoyle and urged her master forward.
Lord Artos grimaced at me across the fire, his face taking on a gargoyle look in the flames.
All around the battlements, the projectors concealed within the gargoyles and crenelations flared and glowed violet.
And the rain gurgled in the downpipes and gushed from the gargoyles and swirled in the gutters and deadened all sound.
The places were larger than they looked at first glance, but still might have been dismissed as middle-class housing but for the gilding around the windows, doors, and immaculate edgework, and the fact that few middle-class townhouses sported upper-story gargoyles and such intricate wrought-iron works placed almost purely for decoration.
Dark and green of skin, and bearing a close resemblance to the gargoyles of Underhill, Mort had the long, pointed ears of elves.
Odras had been a solitary mage, walking the land of Underhill for centuries, living among the poor, even the gargoyles for a time.
Almost everyone claimed to have seen the gargoyles move or heard a woman wailing.
These collided, then exploded in a sunburst: first gold, then green, then iridescent blue dimming into silver, showering among the marble towers, clinging to the gargoyles and has relief flutings on columns and porticos for a single glorious moment.
You know gargoyles are ferocious predators that attack anything and love to torture their prey.
They laid a task on me -- and one of their pet gargoyles turned my pinky to stone as a reminder.