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rococo::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | artistic style, idiom |
rococo::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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an exquisite gilded rococo mirror.
Examples of rococo
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Rococo style took pleasure in asymmetry, a taste that was new to European style.
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Fortunately, not in ghastly rococo velvet but in fine linens and soft leathers.
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If vaudeville was once king, burlesque was the nation's raffish, rococo old queen.
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Ludwig's two other palaces both evoke the rococo splendors of Louis XIV of France.
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Hidden behind the high walls of an exotic garden, this rococo hideaway is sublime.
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Its reception rooms are decorated with elabo-rate carving in the rococo style.
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The Winter Palace's Grand Church today retains its original rococo decoration.
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Decor is a touch rococo, a Venetian mask here, a black and white photo there.
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He was a conservative intellectual with a rococo vocabulary and a patrician manner.
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- Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
- Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"
- Rococo (less commonly roccoco) also referred to as "Late Baroque" is an 18th century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly more ornate, florid, and playful. ...
- Rococo were one of the most progressive of London's rock bands in the 1970s.
- Rococo club was an R&B nightclub in Leicester Square, central London, England. It was home to several funky house and R&B nights including the VIP guestlist R&B, Bashment and Hip Hop Cinnamon Fridays nights.
- A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th century France, having elaborate ornamentation; Of, or relating to the rococo style; Over-elaborate or complicated; Old-fashioned
- A style of design, painting, and architecture dominating the 18th century, often considered the last stage of the Baroque. Developing in the Paris townhouses of the French aristocracy at the turn of the 18th century, Rococo was elegant and ornately decorative, its mood lighthearted and witry. ...
- From the French rocaille meaning "rock work." This late Baroque (c. 1715-1775) style used in interior decoration and painting was characteristically playful, pretty, romantic, and visually loose or soft; it used small scale and ornate decoration, pastel colors, and asymmetrical arrangement of ...
- Artistic style of the early eighteenth century characterized by energy, lightness, delicacy, playfulness, and self-conscious artificiality; it was replaced by a more stern neoclassicism.
