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bizarre, a. and n.
(bɪˈzɑː(r), or as Fr. bizar)
Also 7 bizare, bizarr.
[mod.Eng. (17th c.), a. F. bizarre ‘odd, fantastic,’ formerly ‘brave, soldier-like’; cf. Sp. and Pg. bizarro ‘handsome, brave,’ It. bizzarro ‘angry, choleric,’ dial. Fr. (Berry) bigearrer to quarrel. Littré suggests that the Spanish word is an adaptation of Basque bizarra beard, in the same manner as hombre de bigote moustached man, is used in Sp. for a ‘man of spirit’; but the history of the sense has not been satisfactorily made out.
1667Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 161 We have hardly any words that do so fully express the French..naivete, ennui, bizarre, concert..emotion, defer, effort..let us therefore (as the Romans did the Greek) make as many of these do homage as are like to prove good citizens.]
1. At variance with recognized ideas of taste, departing from ordinary style or usage; eccentric, extravagant, whimsical, strange, odd, fantastic.
a1648Ld. Herbert Life, Her attire seemed as bizare as her person. 1668Dryden Maid. Queen Pref., The Ornament of Writing, which is greater, more various and bizarre in Poesie than in any other kind. 1757Hume Stand. Taste, Ess. (1875) I. 270 Ariosto pleases; but not..by his bizarre mixture of the serious and comic styles. 1825Scott Talism. (1863) 42 Such oddity of gestures and manner as befitted their bizarre and fantastic appearance. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 352 The bizarre superstitions by which he was surrounded.
b. esp. At variance with the standard of ideal beauty or regular form; grotesque, irregular.
1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 577 The bizarre wooden cuts of Caxton. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. xi. §14 If the arch be of any bizarre form, especially ogee. 1861N. Woods Pr. Wales in Canada 359 The capitol is a bizarre Græco-American building which runs much to windows.
c. absol. or quasi-n.
1850J. Leitch tr. Müller's Anc. Art §99 An intentional striving at the bizarre. 1851R. Wornum Exhib. a Lesson in Taste 5/2 In the Renaissance [architecture], we have..a prevalence of the bizarre and a love of profusion of parts.
2. Hort. Applied to variegated species of garden flowers, as tulips and carnations. Often as n.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Bizarre, a term used among the florists for a particular kind of carnation, which has its flowers striped or variegated with three or four colours. 1843Penny Cycl. XXV. 343/2 Bizarre tulips have a yellow ground marked with purple or scarlet of different shades. 1883Athenæum 30 June 825/3 The ‘streaked gillyflower’ is the clove so crossed as to become a ‘bizarre.’ |