baroque

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  1. adjective 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. adjective 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. adjective Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation: "the baroque, encoded language of post-structural legal and literary theory” (Wendy Kaminer).
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  • That reminds him of the word baroque, barrack, bark, poodle, Suzanne R. -- he's off to the races. —  Dan Dennett on our consciousness
  • Such possibilities had trembled just out of reach ever since her arrival among these baroque, ancient, and inward-turned people. —  AnalogSFF,June2007
  • But under these pseudo-baroque ornaments was hidden a framework of reinforced concrete. —  August, 1953
  • And though I speak with the tongues of Men and Angels, I may not be able to share my constant wonder at this bizarre, baroque, and ultimately beautiful Universe that we live in. —  A.E.Brain
  • Like Bach and Handel mark the peak of the high baroque, and Beethoven the classical era, Brahms represents the pinnacle of the Romantic period. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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  1. French, from Italian barocco, imperfect pearl, and from Portuguese barroco.

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  1. Also baroco; = G. Danish barok, from French baroque, barroque = Italian barocco, from Portuguese barroco = Spanish barrueco, irregular, bizarre, especially in architecture, orig. irregular-shaped, as applied to a pearl. Origin uncertain; perhaps, with some confusion with other words, from Latin verruca, a steep place, a height; hence, a wart, an excrescence on precious stones.
 

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