All 3 Uses
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- He had been too tired the night before to take notice of their camp site — it had been simply a place to go to sleep in; but now, the scenery's bizarre grandeur caught his imagination.†
Chpt 12 *bizarre = exceedingly odd or unusual
- Yet even here, in its upper reaches, it had a certain beauty; not its former beauty of woods and shades and gentle colours; but a bold, bizarre beauty; a kaleidoscope of strange pigments and exciting, unexpected contrasts.†
Chpt 15
- Every sunrise and every sunset the bird songs were near-deafening: a diurnal cacophony of notes clear and limpid, bizarre and unmelodious.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(bizarre as in: is bizarre) exceedingly odd or unusual
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Bizarre can also refer to a marketplace -- especially in the Middle East.