baroccoadj.n.
/bəˈrɒkəʊ/ A. adj.
= baroque adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [noun] > specific style
rocaille1810
rococo1835
serio-grotesque1858
barocco1877
baroque1879
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [adjective] > specific style
Moorish1434
savage1548
damaskeen1551
grotesque1603
Mogul1617
pierced1756
baroque1765
rocaille1776
rococo1830
plateresque1845
Alhambresque1848
François Premier1850
Mudéjar1865
serio-grotesque1873
famille verte1876
barocco1877
rococoesque1885
famille rose1893
famille noire1898
Ch'ien Lung1901
Marie Antoinette1909
Mosan1910
famille jaune1923
Romanizing1936
quatre-couleur1959
penworked1965
1877 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy III. ii. 99 Palladio was followed by the violent reactionaries of the barocco mannerism.
a1902 S. Butler Note-bks. (1912) 260 The band played the barocco music on the barocco little piazza and we were all barocco together.
1923 L. Pullan Relig. since Reform. vii. 221 Peter the Great..pronounced the name of his new capital as if it were Dutch, and his architects built it after the manner of the Dutch and German barocco cities.
B. n.
= baroque n.
ΚΠ
1877 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy III. x. 503 Stucco, fresco, and gilding in a style only just removed from the barocco.
1881 S. Butler Alps & Sanct. Piedmont 332 The architecture is late, and barocco, not to say rococo, reigns everywhere.
1955 E. Pound Section: Rock-drill lxxxvii. 33 Then false fronts, barocco.
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adj.n.1877