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Categories: Art genres, Folklore, Grotesque, Literary genres, Stock characters
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grotesque  Grotesque art  Groteschi  grotesques  grottesche
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Art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants WordNet 3.0
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Art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Since at least the 18th century, grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks. Wikipedia
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