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US
/bɝˈoʊk/
]
[ UK /bəɹˈəʊk/ ]
[ UK /bəɹˈəʊk/ ]
NOUN
- the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe
How To Use Baroque In A Sentence
- If you think baroque is all about curlicues and foofaraws, Rome is the place to learn otherwise.
- In the US a baroque webwork of agencies shares responsibilities for determining safe levels of chemical residue in and on food.
- The orchestral arrangements added fresh layers of drama and grandeur to her already baroque style. Times, Sunday Times
- Pinto Coelho was particularly fond of the Baroque style, and it features dominantly in his collection. Pinto Coelho's Daring Style
- Their music is firmly rooted in the Irish tradition but also encompasses an unusual blend of hot jazz, bluegrass and baroque.
- Schiff's forms depend (like Marianne Moore's) on interlocking enjambments, on syllabics, and on baroque grammar, or else (unlike Moore's) on dense repetitions derived from Provençal forms.
- From alcohol they progress (oh so slowly) to opium, thence to heroin, allowing their language to get boozily baroque and even less penetrable.
- The most baroque of these is a slippery square of cod, baked in a dome of salt and egg whites, which the waiters tap open at the table with a spoon.
- The Baroque approach also encompassed music, costume and performance. Times, Sunday Times
- Are these textiles Baroque draperies, shrouds or the curtains of a luxurious four-poster bed defiled and destroyed?