spec. in technical use. Architecture. Enriched with decorative details.

Of architectural or artistic style: presenting or reliant upon great masses; imposing, heavy.

Architecture. Of an arch, window, etc.: having a semicircular top. Also: belonging to or designating a style of architecture characterized by the…

Designating a style of architecture characterized by the use of such arches, esp. the Romanesque (see Romanesque, adj. 3).

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a castle.

Architecture. Of, designating, replicating, or influenced by the style of the residences of medieval nobility (or a popular conception of this)…

Architecture. Designating any of various styles of architecture which emphasize rationalist principles or a rational approach to building and…

Designating a style of architecture characteristic of former English or British colonies, esp. a neoclassical style resembling Georgian architecture…

Of architectural style: presenting great masses; heavy, imposing. Cf. massive, adj. 1e. Obsolete.

Architecture. Sometimes with capital initial. Designating or belonging to a style of architecture of mixed or intermediate character, esp. the…

(a) adj. (originally) designating the castle-like style of the residences of the medieval and Renaissance Scottish nobility; (now chiefly)…

Designating furniture, architecture, etc., characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th-cent…

Architecture. Characterized by waved lines of contrary flexure in flame-like forms (Gwilt): of the style prevalent in France in the 15th and the…

= Scottish Baronial adj. n. at Scottish, adj. n.compounds 3.

Characteristic of, or suggestive of, the architecture of José Churriguera, in the Spanish style of late baroque, or of Latin-American and other…

That has Byzantine characteristics modified by Russian influence; esp. of or relating to traditional Russian architecture before the 18th cent.

Architecture. Rising lightly or gracefully to a considerable height; characterized by loftiness and gracefulness.

transferred and figurative. Sharply defined or outlined; clear-cut; distinct.

Of arts, or features of these: Native or peculiar to a particular country or locality. spec. in vernacular architecture, architecture concerned with…

= Scottish Baronial adj. n. at Scottish, adj. n.compounds 3.

Irregularly shaped; whimsical, grotesque, odd. (‘Originally a jeweller's term, soon much extended in sense.’ Brachet.) Applied spec. to a florid…

= perpendicular, adj. 4.

Architecture. Designating a type of Gothic architecture common in France in the medieval period, characterized by rose windows with radiating…

Designating a style of architecture characteristic of former Dutch colonies, often associated with brick construction and gambrel roofs; designating…

Designating this style of art, architecture, etc.

Of architecture, furniture, etc.: having a style reminiscent or suggestive of the rococo.

Of or relating to the style of architecture characteristic of Henry Hobson Richardson, particularly with regard to the influence of French…

U.S. Usually with capital initial. Designating the style of neoclassical architecture or decorative arts characteristic of the Federal period…

Of or relating to an organized structure compared to a living being. Designating a work of art in which the parts seem naturally or necessarily…

attributive. Of a building or style of architecture: resembling an elaborate piece of confectionery. (Cf. quot. 1861 at confectionary, adj. s.v. w…

made or done in a characteristically European style.

Subsequent to, or coming later than, that which is modern; of or relating to postmodernism; belonging to a postmodernist style, concept, or point of…

Used attributively to denote (features of) buildings designed by Lutyens, or those in a similar neoclassical style.

Of, relating to, or designating a current or recent movement or trend in art, architecture, etc., characterized by a departure from or a…

Designating a style of architecture and interior decoration originating in the United States in the late 1920s as an adaptation of European art…

Of or relating to functionalism in design or architecture; exhibiting functionalism in design. See functionalism, n. 3.

As a modifier. Applied to a style of southern-colonial architecture and decoration considered characteristic of Williamsburg in Colonial times, and…

As a modifier, designating a building, piece of furniture, etc. in a style that predominated during the colonial period.

(a) a case, frequently of wood, in which items are packed for transport; (b) attributive (derogatory) designating a type of modern architecture…

Characteristic or typical of the designs of Le Corbusier, or influenced by his theories; modernist, functionalist.

spec. Of architecture or decoration: of a style facetiously likened to, or considered to resemble that typical of public lavatories.

Often with capital initial. Osbert Lancaster's mock or depreciative name for: a style or supposed ‘school’ of architecture regarded as imitative or…

Designating architecture, furniture, etc., resembling that designed by the Adam brothers; characteristic of their style. See Adam, n.2

Architecture. Of or characterized by rationalism (rationalism, n. 5).

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the style of architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, esp. of his work in the United States.

= open plan, adj.

The face or front of a building towards a street or other open place, esp. the principal front. Also attributive or as adj., of an architectural…

attributive. Of, designating, or characteristic of a cinema built by the company of Oscar Deutsch.

Designating or relating to the ‘high-tech’ design movement. Cf. sense B. 2.

Of or designating the style or period of Populuxe.