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Defenition of the word baroque

    • Defenition of the word baroque

      • The period of European music from the early to mid 1600's to the mid 1700's.
      • The seventeenth-century period in Europe characterized in the visual arts by dramatic light and shade, turbulent composition, and exaggerated emotional expression.
      • elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
      • having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells
      • elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
      • elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
      • the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe
      • having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
      • of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750

    Synonyms for the word baroque

      • baroque era
      • baroque period
      • baroqueness
      • churrigueresco
      • churrigueresque

    Similar words in the baroque

      • fancy

    Hypernyms for the word baroque

      • artistic style
      • elaborateness
      • idiom
      • ornateness

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