gargoyle

Definizioni

A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.

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Esempi

“As we went, however, I took the precaution of noting our route as well as I could; and this was not so very difficult, owing to the extraordinary and most fantastic shape of the rocks that were strewn about, many of which in that dim light looked more like the grim faces carven upon mediæval gargoyles than ordinary boulders.”

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