1. (noun) a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries

• black letter

2. (noun) 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

• gothic architecture

3. (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened

• mediaeval
• medieval

1. (noun) 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

• east germanic
• east germanic language

2. (noun) a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries

• case
• face
• font
• fount
• typeface

3. (noun) 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

• architectural style
• style of architecture
• type of architecture

1. (noun) 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

• english-gothic
• english-gothic architecture
• perpendicular
• perpendicular style

1. (adjective) characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque

• literature

1. (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened

• nonmodern

2. (adjective) characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque

• strange
• unusual

1. (adjective) characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German

• black letter

2. (adjective) of or relating to the Goths

• goth

1. (adjective) characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German

• black letter