rococo — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.

   Uso

   • incontável

   Exemplos

   They built a rococo aedicule that stands around the Tomb today.

2. A piece of ornamentation in this style.

   Uso

   • contável

   Exemplos

   Mais exemplos (2)

   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.

   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.

Adjetivo

1. Of or relating to the rococo style.

2. Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent.

3. Old-fashioned.

Adjetivo

1. having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation

   Exemplos

   an exquisite gilded rococo mirror

Substantivo

1. fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century

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