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caricature
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Caricature \Car"i*ca*ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Caricatured; p. pr. & vb. n. Caricaturing.] To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.
He could draw an ill face, or caricature a good one,
with a masterly hand.
--Lord
Lyttelton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1749, from caricature (n.). Related: Caricatured; caricaturing.
1748 (figurative), 1750 (literal), from French caricature (18c.), from Italian caricatura "satirical picture; an exaggeration," literally "an overloading," from caricare "to load; exaggerate," from Vulgar Latin carricare "to load a car" (see charge (v.)). The Italian form had been used in English from 1680s and was common 18c.
Wiktionary
n. A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect. vb. To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.
WordNet
n. a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect [syn: imitation, impersonation]
v. represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President" [syn: ape]
Wikipedia
A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes or through other artistic drawings.
In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others.
Caricatures can be insulting or complimentary and can serve a political purpose or be drawn solely for entertainment. Caricatures of politicians are commonly used in editorial cartoons, while caricatures of movie stars are often found in entertainment magazines.
The term is derived from the Italian caricare—to charge or load. An early definition occurs in the English doctor Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, published posthumously in 1716.
Expose not thy self by four-footed manners unto monstrous draughts, and Caricatura representations.with the footnote:
When Men's faces are drawn with resemblance to some other Animals, the Italians call it, to be drawn in CaricaturaThus, the word "caricature" essentially means a "loaded portrait". Until the mid 19th century, it was commonly and mistakenly believed that the term shared the same root as the French 'charcuterie', likely owing to Parisian street artists using cured meats in their satirical portrayal of public figures.
A caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others
Caricature or Caricatures may also refer to:
- Caricature (Daniel Clowes collection), a 1998 book collection of nine comic short stories by Daniel Clowes
- Caricatures (Ange album)
- Caricatures (Donald Byrd album)
- La Caricature (1830–1843), a satirical weekly published in Paris between 1830 and 1843 during the July Monarchy
- La Caricature (1880–1904), a satirical journal that was published in Paris between 1880 and 1904
Caricature is a book collection of nine comic short stories by Daniel Clowes. In contrast to earlier Clowes collections such as Lout Rampage! and Orgy Bound, Caricature concentrates on the more naturalistic, character-focused side of Clowes's output displayed in Ghost World. It includes some of his most admired short stories, including "Immortal, Invisible", "Gynecology" and the title story. All the material in the collection originally appeared in Clowes's comic book Eightball with the exception of "Green Eyeliner", which was published in Esquire.
Caricature was first published by Fantagraphics Books in 1998 in a deluxe hardcover edition. A less expensive paperback version was released in 2002. Both editions contain a mixture of full-color and black-and-white material.
Usage examples of "caricature".
Eli Camperdown, who not long since had seemed the embodiment of strength and power, was now emaciated, wan and fragile-a caricature of his former self.
Farmers were far from being the knuckle-cracking, clodhopping, parvenu philistines that the stage caricature of Turcaret suggested.
Quickly, and with an admirable economy of strokes, he was doodling a caricature of Bartram on the back of his menu card.
The tardive dyskinesia had ceased with unconsciousness, and, relaxed, her face went from some caricature of madness to normalcy.
The fisheye glass made an avian caricature of the man standing alone under the light mounted over the door.
Con it and thank your own special gods that you have no Thony or Gulbranssen in this country to caricature your Gladstonian features.
Coroner and the jury took on a Hogarthian quality, and those witnesses whom she knew resembled brilliantly cruel caricatures of themselves.
Especially they produced in her confessor, Father Lacombe, such a ruling admiration, reverence, and tenderness, that he was subdued into a caricature of her.
Father Looney and our down-market salvation stall have a quality of impressionistic caricature about them, but I have written what I find in my memory.
He was a lopsided caricature of a man, one side of his body stunted, muscles atrophied with disuse, the other side overdeveloped to make up for the paralysis that forced him to depend on it so heavily.
Asiatic, religious, primitive, soul, but is a technological caricature of Petrinism, and the possibility is inherent in this relationship that one day this regime will go the way of the Romanov.
He was overdoing it so thoroughlythe oldest, rustiest of the trucks, the conspicuous absence of basic courte,sy-that she felt sure he was deliberately caricaturing the city impression of rustic redneck manners, even to his clothing-plaid shirt, clean but faded jeans, and the cap, which he did not remove.
Once strong and free in the plays of Aeschylus and his compeers, hampered and constantly under guidance but still dignified and noble in the Senecan drama, Tragedy now found herself debased and almost caricatured in the English Interlude stage.
Anakin pushed his way through the rain-slickered portround crowd, through vendors and street performers, past long rows of cantinas and tapcafs and souvenir shops full of mostly fake lacy shellwork and grossly caricatured statuettes of Grand Moff Tarkin.
Sitting in an old wooden armchair before a battered table, almost a caricature of the English butler, Virkan looked like Anna had supposed, pudgy, but not fat, with deep-set weasellike eyes that shifted from one side of the small lower room to the other.