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a strange or horrible and often frightening creature
- born Joseph Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man was for a time exhibited as a sideshow grotesquerie
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“Grotesquerie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grotesquerie. Accessed 14 Aug. 2022.
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The first known use of grotesquerie was circa 1666
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