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Baroque adj. (Arch.)

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, an artistic style common in the 17th century, characterized by the use of complex and elaborate ornamentation, curved rather than straight lines, and, in music a high degree of embellishment.

Hence, overly complicated, or ornamented to excess; in bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Irregular in form; said esp. of a pearl.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Baroque" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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 ...

— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London

... the sea, looked at from the most charming and rational of terraces. The walk through the first chapters— that is to say, through the theological catacombs with all their gloominess and their involved and baroque embellishments—was also no more than an aesthetic expedient in order to throw into greater relief the purity, clearness, and common sense of the chapter "What is our Conception of the Universe?" For, immediately after that walk in the gloaming and that peep into the wilderness of Irrationalism, ...

— Thoughts out of Season (Part One) • Friedrich Nietzsche

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