Definition of Gothic

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Gothic

Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.

Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital.

The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.

A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.

The style described in Gothic, a., 2.

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Gothic Quotations

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
Jimmy Buffett

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
Amy Tan

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.
Minoru Yamasaki

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.
Gianni Agnelli

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
Goldwin Smith

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
Guillermo del Toro

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
John McGahern

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
Garth Ennis

I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.
Kelly Osbourne

Gothic Translations

Gothic in Afrikaans is Goties
Gothic in Dutch is gotisch, Gotisch
Gothic in French is gothique
gothic in German is Gotik (Schriftart)
gothic in Swedish is gotisk

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