Usually means: Display of bizarre or absurd.
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  1. grotesquerie: Merriam-Webster
  2. grotesquerie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grotesquerie: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. grotesquerie: Wiktionary
  7. grotesquerie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  9. Grotesquerie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. grotesquerie: Rhymezone
  11. grotesquerie: FreeDictionary.org
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  13. grotesquerie: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See grotesqueries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (grotesquerie)

noun:  The quality of being grotesque or macabre.
noun:  (literature) A genre of horror literature that was popular in the early 20th century, and practiced by writers such as Ambrose Bierce and Fritz Leiber.

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