Baroque
[bə-ROHK]
- Part of speech: adjective
- Origin: French, mid-18th century
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.
Highly ornate and extravagant in style.
Examples of Baroque in a sentence
"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.' — Ernest Hemingway"
"The historical home was maintained in the height of its baroque style."
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