/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
Further Reading
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rococo
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/rococo