macaberesqueとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

macaberesque (comparative more macaberesque, superlative most macaberesque)

1. macabre
   • 1903, Guy de Maupassant, M. Walter Dunne (translator), A Tress of Hair

     He has seizures of erotic and macaberesque madness. He is a sort of necrophile. He has kept a journal in which he sets forth his disease with the utmost clearness.

   • 1909, Jean Jules Jusserand, A Literary History of the English People:

     Those plots which he prided himself on inventing are, for the most part, very weak; his people go forth one after the other, a macaberesque procession, fitter to excite melancholy than mirth […]