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GOTHIC ROMANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A romance that deals with desolate and mysterious and grotesque events
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Gothic romance" is a kind of...):
romance (a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life)
Derivation:
Gothic romancer (a writer of Gothic romances)