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单词 rocaille
释义

rocaille

/rə(ʊ)ˈkʌɪ /
noun
1 [mass noun] An 18th-century artistic or architectural style of decoration characterized by elaborate ornamentation with pebbles and shells, typical of grottos and fountains: a room with walls in rocaille like those of fountains in a park [as modifier]: heavy frames of gilt rocaille stucco-work...
  • The word was apparently coined in the 1790s by David's students, wittily combining rocaille and barocco, to refer disparagingly to the taste fashionable under Louis XV.
  • The most distinctive decorative style evident during the second period at the factory is rocaille, which was used in three-dimensional forms and in painted surrounds for individual scenes.
2A tiny ornamental bead: rocailles are available in a range of opaque colours...
  • The bright sunlight poured down on the myriad of rocailles, garlands, leaves, amphorae, birds and cupids.
  • It was of colossal figures that would have been of white marble, surfaced in part in rocailles, which would have made them appear to be of a single piece.

Origin

French, from roc 'rock'.

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