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grotesquery en · NOUN

Etymology

From grotesque + -ery, calquing French grotesquerie, q.v.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of grotesquerie.
   alt of grotesquerie
   • Mr Carlyle had not maligned her looks: plain she undoubtedly was, not in any sense describably ugly but with a sort of pug-dog grotesquery. 1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:

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