What is "grotesques"

Usage examples of "grotesques".

They were costumed as grotesques, their heads encased in monstrous casques mat were contorted and painted in demonic expressions and fitted with red compound eyes.

The Devil shall see your stone grotesques from every hill and valley on earth and shall fear these grounds.

Together, the stone grotesques spun their heads toward the flying bolts.

With more than a hundred stone grotesques swarming the skies, and hundreds of soldiers, monks and squires spilling over the grounds, the whole abbey became a screaming requiem of carnage.

What the grotesques really need is each other, but their estrangement is so extreme they cannot establish direct ties--they can only hope for connection through George Willard.

For an hour the procession of grotesques passed before the eyes of the old man, and then, although it was a painful thing to do, he crept out of bed and began to write.

Some one of the grotesques had made a deep impression on his mind and he wanted to describe it.