单词 | grottoesque |
释义 | > as lemmasgrottoˈesque grottoˈesque adj. resembling a grotto; also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [adjective] > grotto grottoesque1864 grottoed1892 1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 107 A massive piece of rock..supplying them with a kind of natural grotto-esque back to the recess. 1881 J. P. Briscoe Old Notts. 123 Only a groto-esque [sic] summer house to the Castle when it was inhabited. 1955 S. Spender Making of Poem 101 Gilded Romanticism is atmosphere in the Ballad-makers, fancy in Shakespeare and the other Elizabethans, desperation in the Jacobeans, the grottoesque in Pope. < as lemmas |
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