Usually means: Carved figures, often bizarre, decorative.
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  1. grotesques: Merriam-Webster
  2. grotesques: Collins English Dictionary
  3. grotesques: Vocabulary.com
  4. Grotesques, grotesques: Wordnik
  5. grotesques: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. grotesques: Wiktionary
  7. grotesques: Dictionary.com
  8. Grotesques: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. grotesques: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. grotesques: Legal dictionary

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  1. grotesques: Encyclopedia

(Note: See grotesque as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (grotesque)

adjective:  Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal, especially in a hideous way.
adjective:  Disgusting or otherwise viscerally revolting.
adjective:  (typography) Sans serif.
noun:  A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.
noun:  Anything grotesque.
noun:  (typography) A sans serif typeface.
verb:  (transitive) To make grotesque.
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