gargoyle
noun
a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
gargoyled
-
a word derived from
gargoyle.
Example Sentences
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From August, 1969, until that day, the six-story lightly gargoyled Renaissance Revival apartment building with a first-floor brick façade was the New York City headquarters of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
Within, you walk the clattering flags of its dim, long aisles; without, you peer aloft to view its gargoyled waterspouts, leering down like nightmares caught in the very act of leering and congealed into stone.
From Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers!
From Hospital Sketches by Robert Swain Peabody
It is a monument of Gothic insecurity, all turreted, and gargoyled, and slashed, and bedizened with half a score of architectural fancies.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
But fiends and dragons from the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And underneath the traitor Judas lowers!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various
