macabre
/m kaabr, -br/ • adjective disturbing and horrifying because concerned with death and injury. — ORIGIN French, from Danse Macabre ‘dance of death’, perhaps from Macabé ‘a Maccabee’ (a member of a 2nd-century bc Jewish sect led by Judas Maccabaeus), with reference to a miracle play depicting the slaughter of the Maccabees.
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