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noun
a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches
adjective
characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
“gothic novels like `Frankenstein'”
noun
extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas
characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German
of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths
of or relating to the Goths
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