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neo-gothic

American  
[nee-oh-goth-ik] / ˌni oʊˈgɒθ ɪk /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or designating chiefly a style of architecture in which gothic motifs and forms are imitated.


Etymology

Origin of neo-gothic

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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In the latest film, the little Essex church doubles for a neo-gothic church in upstate New York.

From BBC

The feelings of awe and trepidation I felt walking into the neo-gothic institution, enclosed by its 30-foot walls, were overwhelming.

From Salon

In an old, neo-gothic building in Fort, an upmarket area in India's financial capital Mumbai, is a run-down office that produces one of country's oldest and most prominent Parsi magazines - Parsiana.

From BBC

Rosenberg received an even harsher rebuke from Hitler, who preferred Greek and Roman classicism to Rosenberg’s neo-Gothic aesthetic and denounced “those backwards-lookers who imagine that they can impose upon the National Socialist revolution, as a binding heritage for the future, a ‘Teutonic art’ sprung from the fuzzy world of their own romantic conceptions.”

From Salon

Its replacement, which burned down five years ago, was put up decades later as part of a neo-Gothic reconstruction conducted by architect Eugène Viollet-Le-Duc.

From BBC