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macabre
/məˈkɑb/
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What does macabre mean?
adjective
- Representing or personifying death.
- Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
- Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
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/məˈkɑb/
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Gounod had conducted the Funeral March of a Marionnette; Reyer, his beautiful overture to Siguar; Saint Saens, the Danse Macabre and a Reverie Orientale; Massenet, an unpublished Hungarian march; Guiraud, his Carnaval; Delibes, the Valse Lente from Sylvia and the Pizzicati from Coppelia.