Definition of rococo in English:

rococo

adjective rəˈkəʊkəʊ

1Denoting furniture or architecture characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th-century continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork.
（家具，建筑）洛可可式的（18世纪流行于欧洲大陆的后期巴罗克式精巧、繁琐的装饰风格，以图案和涡卷装饰的不对称性为其特点）
a rococo carved gilt mirror
the rococo style
Example sentencesExamples
- The whole tableau is set upon a rococo footed platter, white with gold wave trim, that recalls the mirrored trays of mid 20th-century suburban dresser sets.
- Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results.
- Joseph McDonnell has highlighted instances where Irish goldsmiths appear to have used moulds to copy London designs in the rococo idiom.
- He produced some charming teawares decorated with putti and children in the rococo manner.
- A further four medallions were also added to the rococo ceiling in the Great Room, in this instance in monochrome with backgrounds painted to represent terracotta.
- But more picturesque venues include the Gothic convent of St Agnes of Bohemia and the Kinsky Palace, the most beautiful rococo building in Prague.
- Each is massively framed by an ornate gilt rococo cartouche carved by Giovanni Giuliani in 1706.
- Before the house re-opened, she mowed the lawns into rococo designs, and this spring, he will create an installation in the grounds.
- These furnishings included carpets, curtains, louvres, rococo chairs, plaster casts of antique statues and busts, paintings, Chinese vases and diverse plants.
- Maria sat bolt upright on a pretty rococo chair, watching the dancing couples.
- Accordingly, the transitional period between the opulent baroque period and the less formal rococo era of Louis XV became known as French Régence, or Regency.
- Thus we have a medley of dates, spanning the reigns of Louis XIII to Louis XV, if you include the rococo picture frame on the Rigaud to the right of the chimney.
- As in the rococo period, virtually no surface was allowed to escape unembellished.
- Her Great Room occupying the front of the house has a fine rococo ceiling, newly fashionable as a feature at the time.
- These were of eclectic style, many of them with baroque and rococo elements.
- His rococo pieces were obviously executed before the neo-classical ones, but the transition between the two styles in England spanned at least a decade.
- Another example of the English rococo style promoted by Moser is the snuffbox recently promised to the Museum.
- Charles-Joseph Natoire's resplendent decorative style typifies the sophistication and elegance of French art during the rococo period.
- When I first arrived at the Akademie Schloss Solitude near Stuttgart, Germany, I was struck by a flamboyant baroque and rococo construction.
- The quality of Calderwood's work during that period is illustrated by a fine pair of rococo candlesticks, in the collection of the National Museum of Ireland.
1. 1.1 (especially of music or literature) extravagantly or excessively ornate.
  his labyrinthine sentences and rococo usages
  Example sentencesExamples
  In instrumental music, the rococo keyboard sonatas of Seixas rivalled those of Domenico Scarlatti, who worked at John's court between 1719 and 1728.
  To sell such a rococo character, the producers relied heavily on a number of sure-fire gimmicks.
  In Haydn's C major sonata he navigates its florid rococo embroidery with the deft assurance of a Swiss jeweler, while lending to Rachmaninoff's blustery Etude Tableau in D the grandeur its imitative bell sonorities demand.
  Synonyms
  ornate, fancy, very elaborate, curlicued, over-elaborate, extravagant, baroque, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, wedding-cake, gingerbread
  flowery, florid, flamboyant, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, grandiloquent, orotund, rhetorical, oratorical, bombastic, overwrought, overblown, overripe, overdone, convoluted, turgid, inflated
  informal highfalutin, purple
  rare tumid, pleonastic, euphuistic, aureate, Ossianic, fustian, hyperventilated

noun rəˈkəʊkəʊ

mass noun

The rococo style of art, decoration, or architecture.
（艺术，装饰，建筑）洛可可风格
rococo is alive and living in our hearts
Example sentencesExamples
- The visual vocabulary of the Baroque and rococo, which the Europeans brought to Brazil, also lends itself to sublime extravagance.
- Art nouveau's swirling forms and arabesques, decorative playfulness and openness to the exotic, in this case from Japan rather than China, also seem descended from rococo.
- In the Svindersvik manor, the characteristics of Swedish rococo were boiled down to their essence and even enhanced by its minute size.
- The candlesticks with Apollo and Daphne, made in London around 1740, are rare and unusual examples of the full-blown English rococo.
- The arresting mirror from Milan shows the Italian rococo at its most lively, with scrollwork rising detached from the bottom of the frame, to converge in a vortex in time cresting.
- The massive and elaborately gilded furniture and furnishings of the late baroque were so entrenched in Italy, that rococo took longer to establish itself there than in France, southern Germany or even England.
- Her brushwork is lighter, looser, and more melodramatic than Freud's; there is even some pink playfulness - a touch of rococo - in her work.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French, humorous alteration of rocaille.

rock from Old English:
The hard rock that makes up much of the earth came into medieval English from Old French rocque, which can be traced back to medieval Latin rocca but no further. The classical Latin word was petra, the source of petrify. People have been caught between a rock and a hard place since the 1920s, first of all in Arizona and California. Also American is on the rocks meaning a drink ‘on ice’, first recorded in 1946, while the slang term for a precious stone is 1920s. In France the modern form of the word, roc developed the form rocaille to describe the decoration using shells and pebbles fashionable in the 18th century. In the 19th century this was changed by French workmen to rococo, originally to mean something old-fashioned, but now used to describe the art of the 18th century. Rock meaning ‘to move to and fro’ is an Old English word. Rock music was originally rock and roll, which is first found in 1951, although a song called ‘Rock and Roll’ came out in 1934. Rock and roll combined black rhythm and blues and white country or ‘hillbilly’ music. Elvis Presley's first single, ‘That's All Right Mama’ and Bill Haley's ‘Rock Around the Clock’, both released in 1954, are often considered the first rock and roll records, but similar-sounding music was produced in the 1930s and 1940s by black performers like Big Joe Turner and Fats Domino.
If you are off your rocker you are mad or crazy. A rocker here is a curved piece of wood or metal placed under a chair or cradle so that it can rock backwards and forwards. In the early 1960s rockers were also youths who liked rock music, leather clothing, and motorcycles, and were the sworn enemies of the mods (short for modernists), who were noted for their smart appearance, motor scooters, and fondness for soul music.

Rhymes

coco, cocoa, loco, moko, Orinoco, poco

Definition of rococo in US English:

rococo

adjective

1(of furniture or architecture) of or characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th-century Continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork.
（家具，建筑）洛可可式的（18世纪流行于欧洲大陆的后期巴罗克式精巧、繁琐的装饰风格，以图案和涡卷装饰的不对称性为其特点）
a rococo carved gilt mirror
the rococo style
Example sentencesExamples
- Each is massively framed by an ornate gilt rococo cartouche carved by Giovanni Giuliani in 1706.
- Another example of the English rococo style promoted by Moser is the snuffbox recently promised to the Museum.
- As in the rococo period, virtually no surface was allowed to escape unembellished.
- Charles-Joseph Natoire's resplendent decorative style typifies the sophistication and elegance of French art during the rococo period.
- Joseph McDonnell has highlighted instances where Irish goldsmiths appear to have used moulds to copy London designs in the rococo idiom.
- But more picturesque venues include the Gothic convent of St Agnes of Bohemia and the Kinsky Palace, the most beautiful rococo building in Prague.
- These were of eclectic style, many of them with baroque and rococo elements.
- Her Great Room occupying the front of the house has a fine rococo ceiling, newly fashionable as a feature at the time.
- He produced some charming teawares decorated with putti and children in the rococo manner.
- Thus we have a medley of dates, spanning the reigns of Louis XIII to Louis XV, if you include the rococo picture frame on the Rigaud to the right of the chimney.
- A further four medallions were also added to the rococo ceiling in the Great Room, in this instance in monochrome with backgrounds painted to represent terracotta.
- When I first arrived at the Akademie Schloss Solitude near Stuttgart, Germany, I was struck by a flamboyant baroque and rococo construction.
- Maria sat bolt upright on a pretty rococo chair, watching the dancing couples.
- Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results.
- The whole tableau is set upon a rococo footed platter, white with gold wave trim, that recalls the mirrored trays of mid 20th-century suburban dresser sets.
- Before the house re-opened, she mowed the lawns into rococo designs, and this spring, he will create an installation in the grounds.
- These furnishings included carpets, curtains, louvres, rococo chairs, plaster casts of antique statues and busts, paintings, Chinese vases and diverse plants.
- The quality of Calderwood's work during that period is illustrated by a fine pair of rococo candlesticks, in the collection of the National Museum of Ireland.
- Accordingly, the transitional period between the opulent baroque period and the less formal rococo era of Louis XV became known as French Régence, or Regency.
- His rococo pieces were obviously executed before the neo-classical ones, but the transition between the two styles in England spanned at least a decade.
1. 1.1 Extravagantly or excessively ornate, especially (of music or literature) highly ornamented and florid.
  （尤指音乐、文学）过分华丽精巧的；绚丽的；过分雕琢的
  his labyrinthine sentences and rococo usages
  Example sentencesExamples
  In instrumental music, the rococo keyboard sonatas of Seixas rivalled those of Domenico Scarlatti, who worked at John's court between 1719 and 1728.
  In Haydn's C major sonata he navigates its florid rococo embroidery with the deft assurance of a Swiss jeweler, while lending to Rachmaninoff's blustery Etude Tableau in D the grandeur its imitative bell sonorities demand.
  To sell such a rococo character, the producers relied heavily on a number of sure-fire gimmicks.
  Synonyms
  ornate, fancy, very elaborate, curlicued, over-elaborate, extravagant, baroque, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, wedding-cake, gingerbread

noun

The rococo style of art, decoration, or architecture.
（艺术，装饰，建筑）洛可可风格
rococo is alive and living in our hearts
Example sentencesExamples
- In the Svindersvik manor, the characteristics of Swedish rococo were boiled down to their essence and even enhanced by its minute size.
- The candlesticks with Apollo and Daphne, made in London around 1740, are rare and unusual examples of the full-blown English rococo.
- Art nouveau's swirling forms and arabesques, decorative playfulness and openness to the exotic, in this case from Japan rather than China, also seem descended from rococo.
- Her brushwork is lighter, looser, and more melodramatic than Freud's; there is even some pink playfulness - a touch of rococo - in her work.
- The arresting mirror from Milan shows the Italian rococo at its most lively, with scrollwork rising detached from the bottom of the frame, to converge in a vortex in time cresting.
- The massive and elaborately gilded furniture and furnishings of the late baroque were so entrenched in Italy, that rococo took longer to establish itself there than in France, southern Germany or even England.
- The visual vocabulary of the Baroque and rococo, which the Europeans brought to Brazil, also lends itself to sublime extravagance.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French, humorous alteration of rocaille.

单词	rococo
释义	Definition of rococo in English: rococo adjective rəˈkəʊkəʊ 1Denoting furniture or architecture characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th-century continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork. （家具，建筑）洛可可式的（18世纪流行于欧洲大陆的后期巴罗克式精巧、繁琐的装饰风格，以图案和涡卷装饰的不对称性为其特点） a rococo carved gilt mirror the rococo style Example sentencesExamples The whole tableau is set upon a rococo footed platter, white with gold wave trim, that recalls the mirrored trays of mid 20th-century suburban dresser sets. Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results. Joseph McDonnell has highlighted instances where Irish goldsmiths appear to have used moulds to copy London designs in the rococo idiom. He produced some charming teawares decorated with putti and children in the rococo manner. A further four medallions were also added to the rococo ceiling in the Great Room, in this instance in monochrome with backgrounds painted to represent terracotta. But more picturesque venues include the Gothic convent of St Agnes of Bohemia and the Kinsky Palace, the most beautiful rococo building in Prague. Each is massively framed by an ornate gilt rococo cartouche carved by Giovanni Giuliani in 1706. Before the house re-opened, she mowed the lawns into rococo designs, and this spring, he will create an installation in the grounds. These furnishings included carpets, curtains, louvres, rococo chairs, plaster casts of antique statues and busts, paintings, Chinese vases and diverse plants. Maria sat bolt upright on a pretty rococo chair, watching the dancing couples. Accordingly, the transitional period between the opulent baroque period and the less formal rococo era of Louis XV became known as French Régence, or Regency. Thus we have a medley of dates, spanning the reigns of Louis XIII to Louis XV, if you include the rococo picture frame on the Rigaud to the right of the chimney. As in the rococo period, virtually no surface was allowed to escape unembellished. Her Great Room occupying the front of the house has a fine rococo ceiling, newly fashionable as a feature at the time. These were of eclectic style, many of them with baroque and rococo elements. His rococo pieces were obviously executed before the neo-classical ones, but the transition between the two styles in England spanned at least a decade. Another example of the English rococo style promoted by Moser is the snuffbox recently promised to the Museum. Charles-Joseph Natoire's resplendent decorative style typifies the sophistication and elegance of French art during the rococo period. When I first arrived at the Akademie Schloss Solitude near Stuttgart, Germany, I was struck by a flamboyant baroque and rococo construction. The quality of Calderwood's work during that period is illustrated by a fine pair of rococo candlesticks, in the collection of the National Museum of Ireland. 1.1 (especially of music or literature) extravagantly or excessively ornate. his labyrinthine sentences and rococo usages Example sentencesExamples In instrumental music, the rococo keyboard sonatas of Seixas rivalled those of Domenico Scarlatti, who worked at John's court between 1719 and 1728. To sell such a rococo character, the producers relied heavily on a number of sure-fire gimmicks. In Haydn's C major sonata he navigates its florid rococo embroidery with the deft assurance of a Swiss jeweler, while lending to Rachmaninoff's blustery Etude Tableau in D the grandeur its imitative bell sonorities demand. Synonyms ornate, fancy, very elaborate, curlicued, over-elaborate, extravagant, baroque, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, wedding-cake, gingerbread flowery, florid, flamboyant, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, grandiloquent, orotund, rhetorical, oratorical, bombastic, overwrought, overblown, overripe, overdone, convoluted, turgid, inflated informal highfalutin, purple rare tumid, pleonastic, euphuistic, aureate, Ossianic, fustian, hyperventilated noun rəˈkəʊkəʊ mass noun The rococo style of art, decoration, or architecture. （艺术，装饰，建筑）洛可可风格 rococo is alive and living in our hearts Example sentencesExamples The visual vocabulary of the Baroque and rococo, which the Europeans brought to Brazil, also lends itself to sublime extravagance. Art nouveau's swirling forms and arabesques, decorative playfulness and openness to the exotic, in this case from Japan rather than China, also seem descended from rococo. In the Svindersvik manor, the characteristics of Swedish rococo were boiled down to their essence and even enhanced by its minute size. The candlesticks with Apollo and Daphne, made in London around 1740, are rare and unusual examples of the full-blown English rococo. The arresting mirror from Milan shows the Italian rococo at its most lively, with scrollwork rising detached from the bottom of the frame, to converge in a vortex in time cresting. The massive and elaborately gilded furniture and furnishings of the late baroque were so entrenched in Italy, that rococo took longer to establish itself there than in France, southern Germany or even England. Her brushwork is lighter, looser, and more melodramatic than Freud's; there is even some pink playfulness - a touch of rococo - in her work. Origin Mid 19th century: from French, humorous alteration of rocaille. rock from Old English: The hard rock that makes up much of the earth came into medieval English from Old French rocque, which can be traced back to medieval Latin rocca but no further. The classical Latin word was petra, the source of petrify. People have been caught between a rock and a hard place since the 1920s, first of all in Arizona and California. Also American is on the rocks meaning a drink ‘on ice’, first recorded in 1946, while the slang term for a precious stone is 1920s. In France the modern form of the word, roc developed the form rocaille to describe the decoration using shells and pebbles fashionable in the 18th century. In the 19th century this was changed by French workmen to rococo, originally to mean something old-fashioned, but now used to describe the art of the 18th century. Rock meaning ‘to move to and fro’ is an Old English word. Rock music was originally rock and roll, which is first found in 1951, although a song called ‘Rock and Roll’ came out in 1934. Rock and roll combined black rhythm and blues and white country or ‘hillbilly’ music. Elvis Presley's first single, ‘That's All Right Mama’ and Bill Haley's ‘Rock Around the Clock’, both released in 1954, are often considered the first rock and roll records, but similar-sounding music was produced in the 1930s and 1940s by black performers like Big Joe Turner and Fats Domino. If you are off your rocker you are mad or crazy. A rocker here is a curved piece of wood or metal placed under a chair or cradle so that it can rock backwards and forwards. In the early 1960s rockers were also youths who liked rock music, leather clothing, and motorcycles, and were the sworn enemies of the mods (short for modernists), who were noted for their smart appearance, motor scooters, and fondness for soul music. Rhymes coco, cocoa, loco, moko, Orinoco, poco Definition of rococo in US English: rococo adjective 1(of furniture or architecture) of or characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th-century Continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork. （家具，建筑）洛可可式的（18世纪流行于欧洲大陆的后期巴罗克式精巧、繁琐的装饰风格，以图案和涡卷装饰的不对称性为其特点） a rococo carved gilt mirror the rococo style Example sentencesExamples Each is massively framed by an ornate gilt rococo cartouche carved by Giovanni Giuliani in 1706. Another example of the English rococo style promoted by Moser is the snuffbox recently promised to the Museum. As in the rococo period, virtually no surface was allowed to escape unembellished. Charles-Joseph Natoire's resplendent decorative style typifies the sophistication and elegance of French art during the rococo period. Joseph McDonnell has highlighted instances where Irish goldsmiths appear to have used moulds to copy London designs in the rococo idiom. But more picturesque venues include the Gothic convent of St Agnes of Bohemia and the Kinsky Palace, the most beautiful rococo building in Prague. These were of eclectic style, many of them with baroque and rococo elements. Her Great Room occupying the front of the house has a fine rococo ceiling, newly fashionable as a feature at the time. He produced some charming teawares decorated with putti and children in the rococo manner. Thus we have a medley of dates, spanning the reigns of Louis XIII to Louis XV, if you include the rococo picture frame on the Rigaud to the right of the chimney. A further four medallions were also added to the rococo ceiling in the Great Room, in this instance in monochrome with backgrounds painted to represent terracotta. When I first arrived at the Akademie Schloss Solitude near Stuttgart, Germany, I was struck by a flamboyant baroque and rococo construction. Maria sat bolt upright on a pretty rococo chair, watching the dancing couples. Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results. The whole tableau is set upon a rococo footed platter, white with gold wave trim, that recalls the mirrored trays of mid 20th-century suburban dresser sets. Before the house re-opened, she mowed the lawns into rococo designs, and this spring, he will create an installation in the grounds. These furnishings included carpets, curtains, louvres, rococo chairs, plaster casts of antique statues and busts, paintings, Chinese vases and diverse plants. The quality of Calderwood's work during that period is illustrated by a fine pair of rococo candlesticks, in the collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Accordingly, the transitional period between the opulent baroque period and the less formal rococo era of Louis XV became known as French Régence, or Regency. His rococo pieces were obviously executed before the neo-classical ones, but the transition between the two styles in England spanned at least a decade. 1.1 Extravagantly or excessively ornate, especially (of music or literature) highly ornamented and florid. （尤指音乐、文学）过分华丽精巧的；绚丽的；过分雕琢的 his labyrinthine sentences and rococo usages Example sentencesExamples In instrumental music, the rococo keyboard sonatas of Seixas rivalled those of Domenico Scarlatti, who worked at John's court between 1719 and 1728. In Haydn's C major sonata he navigates its florid rococo embroidery with the deft assurance of a Swiss jeweler, while lending to Rachmaninoff's blustery Etude Tableau in D the grandeur its imitative bell sonorities demand. To sell such a rococo character, the producers relied heavily on a number of sure-fire gimmicks. Synonyms ornate, fancy, very elaborate, curlicued, over-elaborate, extravagant, baroque, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, wedding-cake, gingerbread noun The rococo style of art, decoration, or architecture. （艺术，装饰，建筑）洛可可风格 rococo is alive and living in our hearts Example sentencesExamples In the Svindersvik manor, the characteristics of Swedish rococo were boiled down to their essence and even enhanced by its minute size. The candlesticks with Apollo and Daphne, made in London around 1740, are rare and unusual examples of the full-blown English rococo. Art nouveau's swirling forms and arabesques, decorative playfulness and openness to the exotic, in this case from Japan rather than China, also seem descended from rococo. Her brushwork is lighter, looser, and more melodramatic than Freud's; there is even some pink playfulness - a touch of rococo - in her work. The arresting mirror from Milan shows the Italian rococo at its most lively, with scrollwork rising detached from the bottom of the frame, to converge in a vortex in time cresting. The massive and elaborately gilded furniture and furnishings of the late baroque were so entrenched in Italy, that rococo took longer to establish itself there than in France, southern Germany or even England. The visual vocabulary of the Baroque and rococo, which the Europeans brought to Brazil, also lends itself to sublime extravagance. Origin Mid 19th century: from French, humorous alteration of rocaille.
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