baroque
baroque Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries characterized by ornate detail, dramatic grandeur, and emotional intensity.
"The cathedral is famous for its baroque facade and gilded interior chapels."
Highly ornate, extravagant, or excessively intricate in style, structure, or design.
"The tax code had grown into a baroque system of overlapping exemptions and loopholes."
Having an irregular, non-spherical shape (used specifically of pearls).
"She wore a necklace strung with lustrous baroque pearls of varying sizes."
• noun
The ornate, dramatic style of European architecture, music, and visual art that flourished from the early 17th to the mid-18th century, or the historical period in which it predominated.
"Composers of the late baroque developed complex counterpoint and rich harmonic structures."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the mid-18th century from French 'baroque', originally a jeweler's term from Portuguese 'barroco', meaning an imperfectly shaped or irregular pearl.