rococo

/ruh-koh-koh, roh-kuh-koh/US // rəˈkoʊ koʊ, ˌroʊ kəˈkoʊ //UK // (rəˈkəʊkəʊ) //

洛可可,洛可可式,洛可可风格,洛可可式的

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a style of architecture and decoration, originating in France about 1720, evolved from Baroque types and distinguished by its elegant refinement in using different materials for a delicate overall effect and by its ornament of shellwork, foliage, etc.
- : a homophonic musical style of the middle 18th century, marked by a generally superficial elegance and charm and by the use of elaborate ornamentation and stereotyped devices.

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : Fine Arts. noting or pertaining to a style of painting developed simultaneously with the rococo in architecture and decoration, characterized chiefly by smallness of scale, delicacy of color, freedom of brushwork, and the selection of playful subjects as thematic material.designating a corresponding style of sculpture, chiefly characterized by diminutiveness of Baroque forms and playfulness of theme.
- : of, pertaining to, in the manner of, or suggested by rococo architecture, decoration, or music or the general atmosphere and spirit of the rococo: rococo charm.
- : ornate or florid in speech, literary style, etc.

adj.gaudy

Synonyms

This chicken features a thin, abundant crust with so many facets and angles you want to call it rococo.
The bar drips with rococo flourishes, from the ornate marble fireplace to the lavish gilded mirror.
Sascha Hertli, chief executive of Rococo Dessous, discovered the missing sparkle while a consultant in oil-rich Qatar.
But in Russia, the Rococo Dessous customer generally is a man.
That said, Dickens' genius for the creation of comic characters is worked almost to rococo excess in this novel.
A small palace, also rococo, peeped out behind a clump of bushy oaks.
Finally, in the eighteenth century, comes rococo, with its rustling frou-frou and its delicate charm.
Amongst the elders of the actual rococo age, contentment and gaiety still rule.
Shall I buy you Mademoiselle de Maupin, so that all her rococo soul may dance with gilded limbs across your vision?
Thus Diderot upheld the sentimental and emotional subject against the ftes galantes of the rococo painter.

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a style of architecture and decoration, originating in France about 1720, evolved from Baroque types and distinguished by its elegant refinement in using different materials for a delicate overall effect and by its ornament of shellwork, foliage, etc.
- : a homophonic musical style of the middle 18th century, marked by a generally superficial elegance and charm and by the use of elaborate ornamentation and stereotyped devices.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : Fine Arts. noting or pertaining to a style of painting developed simultaneously with the rococo in architecture and decoration, characterized chiefly by smallness of scale, delicacy of color, freedom of brushwork, and the selection of playful subjects as thematic material.designating a corresponding style of sculpture, chiefly characterized by diminutiveness of Baroque forms and playfulness of theme.
- : of, pertaining to, in the manner of, or suggested by rococo architecture, decoration, or music or the general atmosphere and spirit of the rococo: rococo charm.
- : ornate or florid in speech, literary style, etc.

Examples

This chicken features a thin, abundant crust with so many facets and angles you want to call it rococo.

The bar drips with rococo flourishes, from the ornate marble fireplace to the lavish gilded mirror.

Sascha Hertli, chief executive of Rococo Dessous, discovered the missing sparkle while a consultant in oil-rich Qatar.

But in Russia, the Rococo Dessous customer generally is a man.

That said, Dickens' genius for the creation of comic characters is worked almost to rococo excess in this novel.

A small palace, also rococo, peeped out behind a clump of bushy oaks.

Finally, in the eighteenth century, comes rococo, with its rustling frou-frou and its delicate charm.

Amongst the elders of the actual rococo age, contentment and gaiety still rule.

Shall I buy you Mademoiselle de Maupin, so that all her rococo soul may dance with gilded limbs across your vision?

Thus Diderot upheld the sentimental and emotional subject against the ftes galantes of the rococo painter.