Grotesques

Some of those fortifications are cultural: George Lincoln Rockwell and Richard Spencer are greeted as amusements, not revolutionaries—grotesques, not messiahs.

Surrounded by grotesques, she’s the only character who commands much sympathy.

Architectural restorer Restoration work One of the many grotesques on the face of the Notre Dame in Paris added during Viollet-le-Duc's restoration.

Giovanni da Udine had a more independent status, and was responsible for the decorative stucco work and grotesques surrounding the main frescoes.

The first includes ornaments adopted from antiquity: grotesques, architectural ornaments such as the orders, foliage scrolls and self-contained elements such as trophies, terms and vases.

Unusual animal mixtures, or chimeras, did not act as rainspouts and are more properly called grotesques.