Baroque: alternatives and connections

Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.

Old; antique.

A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask.

To taste or cause to taste.

A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque.

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as w…

A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with a…

A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral t…

Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.

Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of…

In a grotesque manner.

Quality of being grotesque.

A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a…

Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.

The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports…