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a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein''" strange of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations" of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation" characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating" nonmodern |
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