The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caricature \Car"i*ca*ture\, n. [It. caricatura, fr. caricare to charge, overload, exaggerate. See Charge, v. t.]
An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.
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A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody. [Formerly written caricatura.]
The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature.
--I. Taylor.A grotesque caricature of virtue.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
n. (archaic form of caricature English)
Usage examples of "caricatura".
Aborrezco tu cara, que es mi caricatura, aborrezco tu voz, que es mi remedo, aborrezco tu sintaxis patética, que es la mía.
Expose not thyself by four-footed manners unto monstrous draughts, and Caricatura representations.
Questo era dovuto in parte al suo volto allungato e alle sopracciglie nere su un paio d'occhi scurissimi, quei lineamenti che gli davano l'espressione imperiosa e lo sguardo gelido che nella mente di tutti gli Eterni si associavano alla caricatura del Tecnico-tipo.