Gothic Revival

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a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)Also called: neogothic

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Words nearby Gothic Revival

Gothic, Gothic arch, Gothic armor, Gothicism, Gothicize, Gothic Revival, go through, go through channels, go through one, go through the mill, go through the motions

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Example sentences from the Web for Gothic Revival

Since then, Jamshed, like much of the country he once honored in song, has gone through a religious revival.
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Isaacs grew up in Britain, first Liverpool, then London, during a period of economic turmoil and conservative revival.
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Lisa Kudrow - The Comeback How—HOW—is Lisa Kudrow not a nominee for the revival of The Comeback?
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Nazi t-shirts are also very popular in Thailand, which is one step away from staging a revival of Springtime For Hitler.
Hitler is Huge in Thailand: Chicken Joints, T-Shirts, and A Govt.-Issued Propaganda Video|Marlow Stern|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Yet, in pursuit of that ‘great revival of art,’ his anxiety, depression, and overall health began to deteriorate.
Decoding Vincent Van Gogh’s Tempestuous, Fragile Mind|Nick Mafi|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
However great the power of Revival, there is no memory unless there was a First Impression.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
Below the great gothic windows spreads the awning of a café, which takes up all the ground floor.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
It was an antique, half-Gothic, half-Saracenic looking edifice, which they now approached.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
The first and most prominent thing which strikes an observer, is, the undoubted general revival of trade and commerce.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The object and the means were the revival of the nautical labourer of twenty years before.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick

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