baroque
IPA: bɝˈoʊk
Root Word: Baroque
noun
- (art, music) A period in western architecture, art and music from ca. 1600 to ca. 1760 CE, known for its abundance of drama, rich color, and extensive ornamentation.
- The chess variant invented in 1962 by mathematician Robert Abbott, or any of its descendants, where pieces move alike, but have differing methods of capture.
- An ornate, detailed style.
adjective
- (art, music) From or characteristic of the Baroque period.
- Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
- Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
- Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
- Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
- Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
- (figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated.
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Examples of "baroque" in Sentences
- The building is in the Cuban Baroque style.
- She specializes in the music of the Baroque.
- It was done in the baroque style of the Markgraves.
- The structure underwent modifications in the Baroque style.
- The architecture of the building is mixed baroque and oriental.
- The facades of the building is in style Baroque and Renaissance.
- His expressive canvases straddle the styles of Mannerism and Baroque.
- In the years 1701 to 1713 the spire was revamped in the baroque style.
- The arch is made of sandstone in Baroque style with geometric fretwork.
- One of the masters in the style of baroque improvisation was Glenn Gould.
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