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How to pronounce rococo in Dutch?

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Welcome to Noordeinde Palace.
I’m standing in the Small Ballroom.
It’s at the front of the palace, next to the Balcony Room.
Small, informal meetings are sometimes held here, as you can see from the modern sofas.
The interior is in the neo-rococo style, a 19th-century revival of the 18th-century rococo style.
You can see that it’s a ballroom from the parquet floor.
In 1948 a huge fire destroyed much of the palace, and this room suffered severe damage.
The floor was rescued and reused in the Red Room on the ground floor.
You can still see the scorch marks.
Another striking feature of this room are the Putti.
Putti are figures of small naked figurines.
They don’t have wings, so they’re not angels!
In this room, the Putti are playing musical instruments, like a drum or a flute –
which makes sense, because we’re in the Ballroom.
You can also see Putti in the four corners of the ceiling.
Each corner represents one of the four seasons.
This one, for example, represents winter.
Three Putti are lighting a fire.
It’s thought that this alludes to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
The middle section of this wall can be pushed aside, revealing a musicians’ gallery.
I’m in the library of the Royal Archives, in the palace grounds.
In March 1862, King Willem III and his wife Sophie gave a big costumed ball.
The ball was opened with a polonaise, led by the King and Queen.
The guests danced for hours and hours.
Supper wasn’t served until one in the morning.
You can get a good impression of the ball from these four watercolours by Herman ten Cate.
Since it was a costumed ball, everyone was in fancy dress, as you can see here.
Queen Sophie’s dress was based on a painting that hung in Huis ten Bosch Palace.
This book is full of information about the ball.
I’ve got the programme here, showing that the dances included waltzes and polkas.
It also contains the sheet music for the pieces played.
One of the pieces was performed specially for the online summer opening by pianist Bart van Oort.
If you’d like to see and hear the whole piece performed, go to www.koninklijkeverzamelingen.nl/en.
You can also find out more there about the Small Ballroom and the ball of 1862.

Welcome to Noordeinde Palace.

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rococo::noun | Spocien Dictionary

rococo

noun

/rə'koʊkoʊ/

fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century

Type	Words
Type of	artistic style, idiom

rococo::adjective | Spocien Dictionary

rococo

adjective

/rə'koʊkoʊ/

having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation

Type	Words

an exquisite gilded rococo mirror.

How to pronounce rococo in Dutch?

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