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ba·roque  (b-rk)
adj.
1. also Baroque Of, relating to, or characteristic of a style in art and architecture developed in Europe from the early 17th to mid-18th century, emphasizing dramatic, often strained effect and typified by bold, curving forms, elaborate ornamentation, and overall balance of disparate parts.
2. also Baroque Music Of, relating to, or characteristic of a style of composition that flourished in Europe from about 1600 to 1750, marked by expressive dissonance and elaborate ornamentation.
3. Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation: "the baroque, encoded language of post-structural legal and literary theory" (Wendy Kaminer).
4. Irregular in shape: baroque pearls.
n. also Baroque
The baroque style or period in art, architecture, or music.

[French, from Italian barocco, imperfect pearl, and from Portuguese barroco.]

ba·roquely adv.
ba·roqueness n.

baroque [bəˈrɒk bəˈrəʊk]
n (often capital)
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a style of architecture and decorative art that flourished throughout Europe from the late 16th to the early 18th century, characterized by extensive ornamentation
2. (Music / Classical Music) a 17th-century style of music characterized by extensive use of the thorough bass and of ornamentation
3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) any ornate or heavily ornamented style
adj
1. (Historical Terms) denoting, being in, or relating to the baroque
2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Jewellery) (of pearls) irregularly shaped
[from French, from Portuguese barroco a rough or imperfectly shaped pearl]

baroque
a highly decorated form of art or ornamentation. — baroque, adj.
See also: Architecture, Art
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Baroque - the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe
2.baroque - elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
artistic style, idiom - the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom"
Adj.1.baroque - having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells
fancy - not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
2.Baroque - of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750

baroque
adjective ornate, fancy, bizarre, elegant, decorated, elaborate, extravagant, flamboyant, grotesque, convoluted, flowery, rococo, florid, bedecked, overelaborate, overdecorated He was a baroque figure dressed in theatrical, but elegant, clothes.
Translations
baroque [bəˈrɒk]
A. ADJ (Archit, Art, Mus) → barroco(also fig)
B. Nbarroco m
baroque [bəˈrɒk]
adj
(ART, ARCHITECTURE) [architecture, church, interior] → baroque; [period] → baroque
(MUSIC) [music, composer] → baroque
(= extravagant, elaborate) → baroque
n
(ART, ARCHITECTURE) the baroque → le baroque
(MUSIC) the baroque → le baroque
baroque
adjbarock, Barock-
n (= style)Barock m or nt; the baroque perioddas or der Barock, die Barockzeit
baroque [bəˈrɒk] adjbarocco/a
baroque [bəˈrɒk] adjbarocco/a


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