Definitions for rococos
rococos
ro·co·co
Spelling: [ruh-koh-koh, roh-kuh-koh]
IPA: /rəˈkoʊ koʊ, ˌroʊ kəˈkoʊ/
Rococos is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 50 anagrams from letters in rococos (ccooors).
Definitions for rococos
noun
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a style of architecture and decoration, originating in France about 1720, evolved from Baroque types and distinguished by its elegant refinement in using different materials for a delicate overall effect and by its ornament of shellwork, foliage, etc.
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a homophonic musical style of the middle 18th century, marked by a generally superficial elegance and charm and by the use of elaborate ornamentation and stereotyped devices.
adjective
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(initial capital letter) Fine Arts.
noting or pertaining to a style of painting developed simultaneously with the rococo in architecture and decoration, characterized chiefly by smallness of scale, delicacy of color, freedom of brushwork, and the selection of playful subjects as thematic material.
designating a corresponding style of sculpture, chiefly characterized by diminutiveness of Baroque forms and playfulness of theme.
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of, pertaining to, in the manner of, or suggested by rococo architecture, decoration, or music or the general atmosphere and spirit of the rococo:
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ornate or florid in speech, literary style, etc.
Origin of rococos
1830-40; French, akin to rocaille rocaille
Examples for rococos
But in Russia, the rococo Dessous customer generally is a man.
In France the preference was for rococo and 191Mansard forms.
The bar drips with rococo flourishes, from the ornate marble fireplace to the lavish gilded mirror.
Sascha Hertli, chief executive of rococo Dessous, discovered the missing sparkle while a consultant in oil-rich Qatar.
In this, as in Hamlet, there are the rococo excrescences—yourselves, let us say.
Helen and I are economising; so the other evening we dined at the rococo.
That said, Dickens' genius for the creation of comic characters is worked almost to rococo excess in this novel.
This chicken features a thin, abundant crust with so many facets and angles you want to call it rococo.
So we cleaned and adorned ourselves and groped our way to the rococo.
The stitch illustrated in fig. 87 is known as rococo stitch.