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Architecture that points at heaven while looking like it might bite you.
means A medieval style of pointed arches and gloom, later a mood spanning novels, fashion, and brooding eyeliner.
from Named by Renaissance Italians as an insult, blaming the barbarian Goths for ruining classical taste — the slur stuck and became a flex.
Original dissMeant crude and barbaric, not cool.
Flying buttressExternal props let walls vanish into glass.
Literary revival1764 novel relaunched gothic as dread.