baroque

[Ba*roque·]

The historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe

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In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Noun
elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

Adjective S.
having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells


a.
In bad taste; grotesque; odd.


Baroque

Ba*roque" , a. [F.; cf. It. barocco.] (Arch.) In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

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Usage Examples

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

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Other Usage Examples

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

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