(
from French Caricature, from Italian Caricaturameans: Exaggeration )
Caricature is the pictorial representation in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated or distorted to produce a comic or grotesque effect.
Caricature is the process or art of creating such representaion.
* from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,
The New College Edition, 1979, Houghton Mifflin Company.
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