baroque

Etymology
Via (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape), from ; related to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from. It has been suggested that the term derives from  Baroco, a technical term from scholastic logic.

Pronunciation




Adjective

 * , intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
 * 1)  and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
 * 2) Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
 * 3)  with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
 * 4) Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
 * 5)  Overly and needlessly complicated.

Translations

 * Catalan: barroc
 * Danish: barok
 * Finnish:, barokkinen
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: barokk
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 * Finnish: barokkinen
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovene:


 * Finnish:, barokkinen


 * Finnish: barokkinen
 * Polish:
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Noun

 * 1) An ornate, detailed style.

Etymology
, originally denoting a pearl of irregular shape, from, , or , all possibly from.

Adjective

 * 1)  (all senses)