hunchbacked

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The French premier also gave the pope a more traditional gift - an 1836 edition of "Notre Dame de Paris", Victor Hugo's classic novel about the hunchbacked bell ringer Quasimodo set in Paris in 1482.

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2021

O’Brien, who played the hunchbacked, Time Warp-dancing butler Riff-Raff, remembers the view from the stage on opening night.

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2020

Rigoletto Vineyard Touring Opera puts a 1980s-style spin on Verdi’s tragic tale of a hunchbacked court jester, his beautiful daughter and a lecherous duke.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2019

Not even the al-Nuri mosque, famed for its "hunchbacked" medieval minaret, survived the conflict.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2017

Instead, a single iguanodon limped along the cobblestones, its hunchbacked rider reaching a long pole up to light the street lanterns one by one.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older