CARIBS

natives of West Indies and Spanish Main, now chiefly settled in Nicaragua and Honduras; name given by Columbus. drawing, painting, or description in which individual characteristics are so exaggerated, or distorted, as to appear ridiculous. The word was first employed in English in Christian Morals, a post- ‘humous book of Sir Thomas Browne. ‘It is also to be found in its Ital. form in ~The Spectator, 1712. There is evidence in carvings and papyri that the art of c. “was employed to a limited extent by the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. It was not, however, until the Middle Ages that its use became widespread throughout Europe; it was then usually expre ed in the form of gargoyles and grotesque decorations in ecclesiastical architecture. Its most notable earl exponent was Hans Holbein, 1498-1554, in his Dance of Death.