gothic
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Festivalgoer Fiona Beasley dropped in with her girlfriends, all of them in black gothic attire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The team revived original furnishings and interior and exterior walls, while constructing a new ADA-compliant Victorian carpenter gothic cottage with stylish board and batten siding, modeled after a 19th-century Sears kit house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
It also has a brief and effective guitar solo, a striking build and a dramatic climax with real pathos, even if the singer’s gothic lyrics are allusive and difficult to extract meaning from.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
They hinted at a darker, more gothic aesthetic, with lyrics haunted by ghostly figures and existential crises.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Blocks away, where newly built mixed-income homes sat next to picturesque buildings like the gothic Church of the Advocate, built in 1887, was the direction the neighborhood wanted to go.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
Vocabulary lists containing gothic
Reading: Literature - Fiction - High School
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Literary Genres - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Literary Genres - High School
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