Meanings (ES + gloss)
grotesco
Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal, especially in a hideous way.
A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp…
The chimney-piece was of party-coloured marble, covered with figures, some of whose faces were beautiful, but generally running off into those grotesque combinations which characte…