"Gormenghastian" meaning in English

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          "text": "The setting, a Gormenghastian castle, is rich with expectancy, and so is quite a lot of the language […]",
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          "ref": "2006, Dana Facaros, Michael Pauls, Sardinia",
          "text": "The rules and rites that have come down through time are followed with Gormenghastian rigour, even though the reasons for some bits have long been forgotten […]",
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          "text": "She'd been picturing some Gormenghastian monstrosity, a mass of dark stone and hulking, spiked towers.",
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          "ref": "2007, Antonia Quirke, Choking on Marlon Brando",
          "text": "Up and down the corridors, the dozen staircases, through the whole Gormenghastian maze.",
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        "Resembling or pertaining to Gormenghast, an enormous sprawling Gothic castle mired in inexplicable traditions, introduced in a series of novels by Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)."
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