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Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 30, 2010macabre \muh-KAH-bruh\, adjective: 1. Gruesome and horrifying. The show brings Poe's macabre and melancholic tales & poems to life as Poe and his wife Virginia guide the audience through historic Mayslake Hall, taking them from the garrets to the dungeons and deep into the madness of Edgar Allan Poe. Those two men were much of the same build though of course Mr. d'Alcacer, quietly alive and spiritually watchful, did not resemble Jorgenson, who, without being exactly macabre, behaved more like an indifferent but restless corpse. Macabre relates to the Danse Macabre, a medieval allegory, but the etymology of the word itself is subject to speculation. | |||||||||
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