Hypertext Webster Gateway: "baroque"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Baroque \Ba*roque"\, a.
Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Baroque \Ba*roque"\, a. [F.; cf. It. barocco.] (Arch.)
In bad taste; grotesque; odd.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
baroque
adj : having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the
building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells
[syn: {churrigueresque}, {churrigueresco}]
n : elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and
architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th
century [syn: {baroqueness}]
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