baroque

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From the Portuguese barroco (“‘irregular pearl’”)

[edit] Adjective

baroque (comparative more baroque, superlative most baroque)

1. ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
2. complex and beautiful, yet for an outward irregularity.
3. chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
4. embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.