Definition & Meaning | English word ROCOCO
ROCOCO
Definitions of ROCOCO
- Of or relating to the rococo style.
- Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent.
- Old-fashioned.
- (uncountable) A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
- (countable) A piece of ornamentation in this style.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using ROCOCO in a Sentence
- Built in a rococo wedding cake style and inspired by the Latona Fountain at the Palace of Versailles, its design allegorically represents nearby Lake Michigan.
- He has been compared to Shakespeare, Beethoven, Mozart, and Hogarth, but his gift, using elegantly rococo classical references in comic contrast to sordid drinking and prostitution—at once regretted and celebrated in song—is unique.
- She suffered a serious illness and retired from the music industry in the 1930s, not before she recorded "My Man o' War", described by one music journalist as "a composition stuffed with rococo suggestiveness".
- There is a popular belief that the Bavarian government planned to sell or demolish the rococo masterpiece during the secularization of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century, and that only protests from the local farmers saved it from destruction.
- It is a wooden structure with three floors, decreasing towards the top, where each floor concludes with gilded pilasters with capitals and rococo decor on each side of a painting.
- The broken pedimented door cases are adorned with rococo carving, by Luke Lightfoot, the most talented wood carver of the era, who worked extensively on the great mansion.
- The visible 107 metal sarcophagi and five heart urns range in style from puritan plain to exuberant rococo.
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