baroque
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See also Baroque
[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From the Portuguese barroco (“‘irregular pearl’”)
[edit] Adjective
baroque (comparative more baroque, superlative most baroque)
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- ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
- complex and beautiful, yet for an outward irregularity.
- chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
- embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.

