Rococo

Rococo– Word of the Day

Tuba Mansoor
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/rəˈkoʊkoʊ/

Meaning

  • As an adjective : denoting furniture or architecture characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th-century continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork. This word can be used a noun too.

Sample Sentences

  • The collection is known mainly as a treasure-house of the French rococo.
  • Rococo remained popular in the provinces and in Italy until Napoleonic times.
  • The 24 bedrooms range from vast suites with parquet floors and rococo furniture to cosy single rooms.

Related words

ornate, fancy, very elaborate, curlicued, over-elaborate, extravagant, baroque, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, wedding-cake, gingerbread; flowery, florid, flamboyant, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, grandiloquent, orotund, rhetorical, oratorical, bombastic, overwrought, overblown, overripe, overdone, convoluted, turgid, inflated; informalhighfalutin, purple; raretumid, pleonastic, euphuistic, aureate, Ossianic, fustian, hyperventilated

See also  Bucolic – Word of the Day

Further Reading

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rococo

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/rococo

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