grotesque

• n.特異なスタイル; 奇妙さ
• adj.奇妙な形をしている; 奇妙な; 滑稽な

洞窟、洞穴、crypt（隠れる）と語源は同じ。16世紀にローマの廃墟と化した洞窟で発見された奇妙なフレスコ画に由来すると考えられている。

grotesque

grotesque: [16] Etymologically, grotesque means ‘grotto-like’. Its Italian source, grottesco, was used in the phrase pittura grottesca, literally ‘grotto-like pictures’, denoting wall paintings of the sort discovered in the excavated basements of old buildings. Many of them were evidently bizarre or highly imaginative, and so grottesca came to mean ‘fanciful, fantastic’.

English acquired the word via Old French crotesque (crotescque was the earliest English spelling, later re-formed as grotesque on the basis of French grotesque and Italian grottesca), and in general use from the mid-18th century onward it slid towards the pejorativeness of ‘ludicrous, absurd’. The colloquial abbreviation grotty is first recorded in print in 1964.
=> grotto

grotesque (adj.)

"wildly formed, of irregular proportions, boldly odd," c. 1600s, originally a noun (1560s), from Middle French crotesque (16c., Modern French grotesque), from Italian grottesco, literally "of a cave," from grotta (see grotto). The explanation that the word first was used of paintings found on the walls of Roman ruins revealed by excavation (Italian pittura grottesca) is "intrinsically plausible," according to OED. Originally merely fanciful and fantastic, the sense became pejorative, "clownishly absurd, uncouth," after mid-18c. As the British name for a style of square-cut, sans-serif letter, from 1875. Related: Grotesquely; grotesqueness.

1. I felt it was a grotesque intrusion into our lives.

私はそれが私たちの生活に対する妨害であり、でたらめだと感じています。

2.a grotesque distortion of the truth

事実に対する荒唐無稽な歪曲

3.She has become a grotesque parody of her former elegant self.

彼女は以前の優雅な振る舞いをしていた自分の奇妙な模倣品になった。

4.Her account of the incident was a grotesque distortion of the truth.

彼女のこの件に対する陳述はでたらめに事実を歪曲している。

5.The two stone lions，of grotesque shape，guard the entrance.

2匹の奇妙な形の狛犬が入り口を守っている。