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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A Japanese literary and artistic movement of the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on eroticism, sexual corruption and decadence. uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese エログロ (eroguro), ultimately from English erotic + grotesque.

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