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Gargantua and Pantagruel illustrated by Gustave Doré
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Gargantua and Pantagruel illustrated by Gustave Doré

"There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion" --"Of Beauty", Francis Bacon

Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales (ca. 1594-1595) by Lavinia Fontana
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Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales (ca. 1594-1595) by Lavinia Fontana

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Strange denotes abnormal; odd, unusual, surprising, uncanny; unknown, grotesque, bizarre, weird, unusual, unexpected; not yet part of one's experience.

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From Middle English strange, from Old French estrange, from Latin extraneus, "that which is on the outside". Displaced native Middle English fremd, frempt (“strange”) (from Old English fremede, fremde).

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