grotesquerieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• grotesquery

語源

From French grotesquerie, from grotesque (“farcical, grotesque”) + -erie (“-ery”), from Italian grottesco, from grotta (“cave, grotto”) +‎ -esco (“-esque, -ish”). Equivalent to grotesque +‎ -erie.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ɡɹoʊˈtɛskəɹi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡɹəʊˈtɛskəɹi/

名詞

grotesquerie (countable and uncountable, plural grotesqueries)

1. An instance of grotesqueness, a grotesque thing.
2. Grotesque things collectively. [1655]
3. Grotesqueness, the quality of being grotesque or macabre.
   • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:

     She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

   • 2009 January 12, Steve Smith, “Worlds Apart: Harmonies Earthbound and Lunar”, in New York Times‎:

     The tone is brittle and morbid, emphasizing the eerie grotesquerie of Albert Giraud's poems.

4. (literature) A genre of horror literature that was popular in the early 20th century, and practiced by writers such as Ambrose Bierce and Fritz Leiber.

参照

• “grotesquerie, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.