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2005, “Goth Girls”, in MC Frontalot (music), Nerdcore Rising:
I think that goth could flower in nerdcore's embrace. I converted Edward Gorey's lettering into a typeface, befriended vampires on LJ and MySpace, even put that spooky echo filter on the bass[…]
Philip has been into goth for many years, haven't you dear?
1786 April, “Account of the India Guide: or, A Journal of a Voyage to the East-Indies in the Year 1780. In a Poetical Epistle to her Mother. By Miss Emily Brittle. Printed at Calcutta in 1785.”, in Walker’s Hibernian Magazine: or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge,, Dublin: Thomas Walker, page 192, column 2:
At Madras we arriv’d in the height of confuſion, / A ſcene all occaſion’d by Hyder’s intruſion; / A goth-like invader! who doth us all keep / Penn’d up in a fort, like a ſcar’d flock of ſheep; […]
1809, an Englishman , The Fortunate Departure; an Historical Account Dramatised, as Best Suited to Convey an Idea of the Horrid Excesses Committed by the French Army, on Their Irruption into Portugal; and the Fortunate Departure of the Prince Regent and Family, on the Eve of Their Entrance into Lisbon., London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones,; and J. Asperne,, act III, scene i, page 41:
By much, they are a horde of all nations, a goth-like banditti, savage and wild, whose numbers bid defiance to all around; […]
1856, David MacGregor Peter, “Byrse of Hillhead”, in The Baronage of Angus and Mearns. Comprising the Genealogy of Three Hundred and Sixty Families—Curious Anecdotes—Descriptions of Clan Tartans, Badges, Slogans, Armory, and Seats—Ancient Sculptures, &c., Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd,; Montrose: Alex Rodgers,, page 34:
In 1843, in the course of agricultural improvements, Mr. Byrse committed a very goth-like deed, to wit, blasting with gunpowder two excellent specimens of clachchriothir, or rocking-stones—and building the remains into dikes!
With her black clothes and dyed hair, Melanie looked very goth compared to her classmates.
2014, Michelle Madow, The Secret Diamond Sisters, page 39:
One of them looked like a total freak who had come straight off a Cirque du Soleil stage, with blue streaks in her hair, goth bracelets up her arm and so much black eyeliner that she could be on the set of Cleopatra.
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