a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches
a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas
characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"
of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations"
of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation"
characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German
(Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul
indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"
having a curiously intricate quality; "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"
not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself"