Gothic
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Gothic or gothic
- of or related to the Goths.
- of or related to the architectural style favored in western Europe in the 12th to 16th centuries.
- of or related to the goth subculture or lifestyle.
- of or related to a style of fictional writing emphasizing violent or macabre events in a mysterious, desolate setting.
- of a style of elaborate calligraphy based on medieval writing, also called black letter.
- of a sans serif typeface using straight, even-width lines, also called typesetters gothic.
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Romanticism
From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general, with grim overtones:
- Gothic fiction, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.
From its use in Romanticism, the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy:
- Gothic fiction
- Goth subculture
- Gothic Romanticism
- Southern Gothic The dark and horrific genre of literature based in the Southern USA
- Southern Ontario Gothic
- Gothic double - literary concept
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