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Baroque
bəˈrɒk
Baroque definitions
adjective
baroque
- relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail
"an impressive baroque cathedral with ornate architecture"
- highly ornate and extravagant in style
"the candles were positively baroque"
ornate fancy very elaborate over-elaborate curlicued extravagant rococo fussy busy ostentatious showy wedding-cake gingerbread flowery florid flamboyant high-flown high-sounding magniloquent grandiloquent orotund rhetorical oratorical bombastic laboured strained overwrought overblown overripe overdone convoluted turgid inflated
noun
baroque
- the baroque style or period
"the interior of the church is in lavish baroque"