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Examples

  • Newmania said ... roccoco pops are my favourite after frosties

    Another Posh Boy ? Newmania 2007

  • What has started scaring me: Second Life might already have destroyed the roccoco virtual reality of my novel.

    Scary Revealed Truth About Speculative Fiction and Publishing The_Lex 2007

  • But elephants do not build colossal temples of ivory even in a roccoco style; camels do not paint even bad pictures, though equipped with the material of many camel's-hair brushes.

    Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990

  • It was a master-piece of the period of Louis XV., and adorned in the most brilliant roccoco style.

    Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

  • But elephants do not build colossal temples of ivory even in a roccoco style; camels do not paint even bad pictures, though equipped with the material of many camel's-hair brushes.

    Orthodoxy 1905

  • But elephants do not build colossal temples of ivory even in a roccoco style; camels do not paint even bad pictures, though equipped with the material of many camel's-hair brushes.

    Orthodoxy 1905

  • Fussy, baroque / roccoco, and inspired by the streets were NOT her thing.

    On the Runway 2009

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