rococo
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
rococo (countable and uncountable, plural rococos)
- (uncountable) A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
- 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 384:
- They built a rococo aedicule that stands around the Tomb today.
- (countable) A piece of ornamentation in this style.
- 1896, The American Stationer, volume 40, page 793:
- Above the two chief figures are rococos on either side of the clock face. These, like all the other work, are in bold relief and wrought with great delicacy and grace. On the top of the clock is a realistic scene from nature.
- 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:
- The marzipan and that kind of malleable ceramic, the rococo decorations, the flowers made of hard sugar, the frosted blue surfaces, kind of gray, the pearls, the legal coloring... all of it supposedly suitable for human consumption.
Translations
style of baroque architecture etc.
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Adjective
rococo (comparative more rococo, superlative most rococo)
- Of or relating to the rococo style.
- Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent.
- Old-fashioned.
Translations
of or relating to the rococo style
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over-elaborate
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old-fashioned — see old-fashioned
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Etymology
Undoubtedly, a word from rocaille and barroco, to denote pejoratively a "rock" style, then gone out-of-fashion; invented in 1797 by Pierre-Maurice Quays, pupil of Jacques-Louis David and firebrand of an austere neoclassical style.
Pronunciation
Adjective
rococo (plural rococos)
- rococo (architectural style, all senses)
- (abstract, derogatory) Relating to old traditions, which may be seen as foolishly outdated; archaic, old-fashioned, obsolete, backwards
Further reading
- “rococo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French rococo.
Noun
rococo
Further reading
- “rococo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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