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noun, feminine

caricature

/ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ/

noun, feminine/ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ/plural: caricatures

caricature (a pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect)

Related: caricatural, caricaturer

Borrowed from Italian caricatùra, from the verb caricàre (“to load; to exaggerate”), cognate with French charger.