| 释义 |
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ba•roque /bəˈroʊk/USA pronunciation adj. - [often: Baroque] of or being a style of architecture and art of the early 17th to mid-18th century marked by lively decoration and dramatic effect.
- Music and Dance[sometimes: Baroque] of or relating to the musical period following the Renaissance, extending roughly from 1600 to 1750.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ba•roque (bə rōk′; Fr. ba rôk′),USA pronunciation adj. - Architecture, Fine Art(often cap.) of or pertaining to a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century and variously prevalent in Europe and the New World for a century and a half, characterized by free and sculptural use of the classical orders and ornament, by forms in elevation and plan suggesting movement, and by dramatic effect in which architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts often worked to combined effect.
- Music and Dance(sometimes cap.) of or pertaining to the musical period following the Renaissance, extending roughly from 1600 to 1750.
- extravagantly ornate, florid, and convoluted in character or style:the baroque prose of the novel's more lurid passages.
- Jewelryirregular in shape:baroque pearls.
n. - (often cap.) the baroque style or period.
- anything extravagantly ornamented, esp. something so ornate as to be in bad taste.
- Jewelryan irregularly shaped pearl.
- Portuguese barroco, barroca irregularly shaped pearl (of obscure origin, originally; compare Spanish berrueco, barrueco granitic crag, irregular pearl, spherical nodule), probably conflated with Medieval Latin baroco invented word for a kind of obfuscating syllogism
- French
- 1755–65
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: baroque /bəˈrɒk; bəˈrəʊk/ n (often capital)- a style of architecture and decorative art that flourished throughout Europe from the late 16th to the early 18th century, characterized by extensive ornamentation
- a 17th-century style of music characterized by extensive use of the thorough bass and of ornamentation
- any ornate or heavily ornamented style
adj - denoting, being in, or relating to the baroque
- (of pearls) irregularly shaped
Etymology: 18th Century: from French, from Portuguese barroco a rough or imperfectly shaped pearl |