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Baroque

noun

The historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe. Synonyms: Baroque era, Baroque period.

Elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century. Synonym: baroqueness.

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"Baroque" Quotes from Famous Books

... dead men lie on the table there. I know those pearls, all of them. You see those three! Perfectly matched, aren't they? A diver from Easter Island got them for me inside a week. Next week a shark got him; took his arm off and blood poison did the business. And that big baroque there—nothing much—if I'm offered twenty francs for it to-morrow I'll be in luck; it came out of twenty-two fathoms of water. The man was from Raratonga. He broke all diving records. He got it out of twenty-two fathoms. I saw him. And he burst his lungs ...

— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London

... busy Milan seems less modern and more picturesque. The lines of the lofty palaces on the Toledo are seldom broken by the facade of a church or other public edifice; and when this does happen, the building is sure to be coldly classic or frantically baroque. ...

— Italian Journeys • William Dean Howells

Words linked to "Baroque" : idiom, churrigueresque, artistic style, age, fancy, historic period