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baroque [bar-rock] Noun 1. a highly ornate style of architecture and art, popular in Europe from the late 16th to the early 18th century 2. a highly ornamented 17th-century style of music Adjective ornate in style [French from Portuguese barroco imperfectly shaped pearl] baroque a highly decorated form of art or ornamentation. — baroque, adj. See also: Architecture, Art
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baroque adjective ornate, fancy, bizarre, elegant, decorated, elaborate, extravagant, flamboyant, grotesque, convoluted, flowery, rococo, florid, bedecked, overelaborate, overdecorated Translations |
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In a nutshell: Deliriously melodramatic, baroquely designed and massively staged epic about court intrigue in 10th-century China. Centrally placed, these figures make an effective contrast with Lozek's renderings of angular attic rooms sparsely furnished with items suggestive of modern design in its more baroquely bastardized incarnations. The Baroquely twisting form, like a warped breadstick, is split into two served and serviced zones, punctuated at intervals by sky courts filled with vegetation and water to mitigate the hot, arid desert climate. |
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