ROCOCO DEFINITIONS - 9 definitions found
rococo adj 1: having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror" n 1: fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary rococo Rococo is a decorative style that was popular in Europe in the eighteenth century. Rococo buildings, furniture, and works of art often include complicated curly decoration. N-UNCOUNT: oft N n English Explanatory Dictionary rococo rəuˈkəukəu adj. & n. --adj. 1 of a late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th-c. continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving scroll-work, shell motifs, etc. 2 (of literature, music, architecture, and the decorative arts) highly ornamented, florid. --n. the rococo style. [F, joc. alt. f. ROCAILLE] The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (1907) Rococo name given to a debased style of architecture, overlaid with a tasteless, senseless profusion of fantastic ornamentation, without unity of design or purpose, which prevailed in France and elsewhere in the 18th century. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Rococo \Ro*co"co\, n. [F.; of uncertain etymology.] A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Rococo \Ro*co"co\, a. Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic. Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) rococo adj. Terminally baroque. Used to imply that a program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent of gold leaf and curlicues that they have completely swamped the underlying design. Called after the later and more extreme forms of Baroque architecture and decoration prevalent during the mid-1700s in Europe. Alan Perlis said: "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." Compare critical mass. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 80 Moby Thesaurus words for "rococo": Gothic, arabesque, archaic, baroque, baroqueness, bizarre, brain-born, busy, bygone, chichi, chinoiserie, dated, deformed, dream-built, elaborate, elaborateness, elegance, elegant, extravagant, fanciful, fanciness, fancy, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, fine, fineness, flamboyance, flamboyant, florid, floridity, floridness, floweriness, flowery, freak, freakish, frilly, fussy, grotesque, high-wrought, labored, luxuriance, luxuriant, luxurious, luxuriousness, maggoty, malformed, misbegotten, misshapen, moldy, monstrous, moresque, moth-eaten, notional, old hat, ornate, ostentation, ostentatious, outdated, outlandish, overelaborate, overelaborateness, overelegance, overelegant, overlabored, overornamentation, overworked, overwrought, passe, picturesque, preposterous, pretty-pretty, rich, richness, teratogenic, teratoid, whimsical, wild |
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