单词 | macabre |
释义 | macabre /meuh kah"breuh, -kahb", -kah"beuhr/, adj. 1. gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible. 2. of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, esp. its grimmer or uglier aspect. 3. of or suggestive of the allegorical dance of death. Also, macaber. [1400-50; < F; cf. late ME Macabrees daunce < MF danse (de) Macabré, of uncert. orig.; perh. to be identified with ML chorea Machabaeorum a representation of the deaths of Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, but evidence is lacking; the F pron. with mute e is a misreading of the MF forms] |
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