Why is this gothic glam so popular? (New Musical Express 24 December 1983, cited after OED).
One hundred fifty Gothics sold over 1.5 million copies a month last spring.
Enormities which gleam like comets through the darkness of gothic and superstitious ages. (Percy Bysshe Shelley in a 1812 letter, Prose Works (1888) II.384, cited after OED).