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A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
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A caricature.
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(often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
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A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.
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Playful, funny, absurd
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Grotesque, incongruous.
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Grotesque, bizarre
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A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping
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In general, anything very old; specifically:
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A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
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To search or shop for antiques.
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To make an object appear to be an antique in some way.
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To emboss without gilding.
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Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
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Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
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Designating a style of type.
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Embossed without gilt.
Examples of antique in a Sentence
The large room contained some of the most beautiful antique furniture she had ever seen.
But in some ways, it's like antique furniture.
It is an antique style, older than Greek or Egyptian.
All we had time to do was fix up a friend of Myrtle's friend's husband's antique car!
Large Mahogany doors swung into an entry graced with antique furnishings.
Ensconced lights glowed in the midday, and antique furniture, rare paintings, elegant marble sculptures befitting a museum, silk Persian rugs underfoot, and many other priceless displays of prestige lined the wide hall.
It was at Strassburg that he published his remarkable volume La Cite antique (1864), in which he showed forcibly the part played by religion in the political and social evolution of Greece and Rome.
It is flanked by medieval walls, towers and gates, and its antique appearance has been carefully preserved.
Another corner contained crates full of sleeping babies while older children sat reading antique books in the center of the room.
It contains a few antique churches, and was created a bishopric at the close of the 18th century.
We find it retaining some traces of Byzantine influence in the decorated surfaces of applied marbles, and in the roundels of porphyry and verd antique, while it also retained certain characteristics of Gothic, as, for instance, in the pointed arches of the Renaissance facade in the courtyard of the ducal palace designed by Antonio Rizzo (1499).
They are, however, though antique and interesting, somewhat dismal and unsavoury.
She focused on the dim light of her microcomputer acting as a page marker in the antique book on her nightstand.
The valves are, consequently, essentially symmetrical, which is not the case with the Lamellibranchiata, - so much so, that certain Brachiopod shells were named Lampades, or lamp shells, by some early naturalists; but while such may bear a kind of resemblance to an antique Etruscan lamp, by far the larger number in no way resemble one.
He was already a poet by predilection, an idyllist and steeped in the classical archaism of the time, when, in 1784, his taste for the antique was confirmed by a visit to Rome made in the company of two schoolfellows, the brothers Trudaine.
Strange as it may appear, I would refer to an Australian as the finest model of the human proportions I have ever met; in muscular development combining perfect symmetry, activity and strength, while his head might have compared with the antique bust of a philosopher."
Angelo, with sixteen antique columns in the interior, probably dates from the middle of the 6th century.
The remarkably definite and original style formed by Mantegna may be traced out as founded on the study of the antique in Squarcione's atelier, followed by a diligent application of principles of work exemplified by Paolo Uccello and Donatello, with the practical guidance and example of Jacopo Bellini in the sequel.
Mismatched chairs, crates, and one couch had been arranged in two circles around stacks of antique books and lanterns.
It is surrounded on the first story by a sixteensided gallery (the Hochmiinster) adorned by antique marble and granite columns, of various sizes, brought by Charlemagne's orders from Rome, Ravenna and Trier.
By the ancient Greeks and Romans obsidian was worked as a gem-stone; and in consequence of its having been often imitated in glass there arose among collectors of gems in the 18th century the practice of calling all antique pastes "obsidians."
We look at antique furniture today and say, "Man, they sure don't make stuff as good as they used to."
The last and the worst of the Cid ballads are those which betray by their frigid conceits and feeble mimicry of the antique the false taste and essentially unheroic spirit of the age of Philip II.
We owe to his pen curious remarks on English and Swiss customs, valuable notes on the remains of antique art in Rome, and a singularly striking portrait of Jerome of Prague as he appeared before the judges who condemned him to the stake.
This is decorated with circles of rosettes of blue, green and red enamel, each surrounded by lines of gold; within the circles are little figures evidently suggested by antique originals, and precisely like similar figures found on carved ivory boxes of Byzantine origin dating from the II th or 12th century.
The morning light was too bright for his eyes, and he turned to face shelves of antique books.
It is surrounded by walls and is of antique appearance.
The huge scale of many of his conceptions can be compared only with that of antique Oriental monuments.
He can't bear to pass up an antique bargain—buying or selling.
They all looked up as Edith Shipton tentatively entered the room, dressed in Annie Quincy's antique dress.
She opened the antique music cabinet Jackson had purchased for her, and brought a piece to him.
The town is one of the oldest in Norway, founded in the 8th or 9th century, but the present town is modern, though narrow, winding streets and wooden houses give it an antique appearance.
But about the year 1452 he finally retired to Florence, where he was admitted to the burghership, and on the death of Carlo Aretino in 1453 was appointed chancellor and historiographer to the republic. He had already built himself a villa in Valdarno, which he adorned with a collection of antique sculpture, coins and inscriptions.
She glanced at antique school house clock on the kitchen wall, a recent purchase.
As he answered the late night call, he glanced up the staircase to see Edith in the hall above, a specter in her antique dress, a look of alarm on her face.
An old clock is an antique.
Maria di Castello (11th century), the columns and capitals of which are almost all antique.
This English antique envelope style clutch is made from the skin of a small alligator with its head adorning the front.
Is it an antique?
I tell you, Papa" (he smote himself on the breast as a general he had heard speaking had done, but Berg did it a trifle late for he should have struck his breast at the words "Russian army"), "I tell you frankly that we, the commanders, far from having to urge the men on or anything of that kind, could hardly restrain those... those... yes, those exploits of antique valor," he went on rapidly.
The monarch's artistic sense led him not only to adorn his house with a number of works of antique art, but also to study German medieval art, which he did to good effect.
He went to Rome in Winckelmann's footsteps; it was the antique he sought, and his interest in the artists of the Renaissance was virtually restricted to their imitation of classic models.
As for manufactures, the antique methods survived until the 18th and 19th centuries.
Thus public monuments became fortresses, and antique sculpture was built into city walls.
The plastic arts were left for Italy, where antique models were at hand, and the glory of its achievement in the 15th and 16th centuries was so great as to obscure in men's eyes what had been done before.
But during its massacres, jacqueries, plagues and famines, the cities of Italy, growing rich with trade and manufactures, were in their turn the centres of progress, this time in a new direction, toward the recovery of the antique past and the development of art.
In the purely intellectual sphere it is certainly true that the recovery of the antique world was of great importance; that it made possible genuine criticism by presenting new points of contrast and opening up fields that led away from theological quibbles.
Or it may mean the resuscitation of simply intellectual activities, stimulated by the revival of antique learning and its application to the arts and literatures of modern peoples.
Yet, when we concentrate attention on the recovery of antique culture, we become aware that this was only one phenomenon or symptom of a far wider and more comprehensive alteration in the conditions of the European races.
Thus, while Christendom was still preoccupied with the Crusades, two main forces of the Renaissance, naturalism and enthusiasm for antique modes of feeling, already brought their latent potency to light, prematurely indeed and precociously, yet with a promise that was destined to be kept.