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    baroque


    1. baroque palaces and site of a brief visit by the travelling


    2. The colorful and ornate architectonic and baroque Chinese style of the façade made me think of the cathedral of Canterbury, in England, which I describe in my Odyssey Fulfilled


    3. They arrived at a huge iron door, almost baroque in style and richly decorated with gold snakes


    4. The whites of his eyes were brown, the skin pockmarked, and a baroque beard and moustache framed unpleasantly moist, full lips that rasped, “I want to fuck you


    5. Then, desperation began to flood me, I spotted a large staircase, Baroque style, which dominated much of the stay and sighed


    6. As they roamed happily through the historical Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque buildings with their ancient windows, ornate clocks, statues, church spires -- and the multitudes of pigeons -- Anna took great delight in telling Travis what she knew


    7. In the centre of the community, almost hidden by snow-laden trees, was an unmistakable blue and white Russian Orthodox church, complete with a large onion-shaped cupola and all the intricate but gaudy baroque trappings of a bygone era


    8. Finally the traffic moved and he selected another compact disc of Baroque to help him change lanes and move to more leafy streets, finally to reach the haven of his dwelling


    9. The baroque drama of infotainment leads to vicarious hyperbolic rants to osmotically orchestrated emotions to designed apathetic impotence, e


    10. Spotlights illuminated some of the pastel coloured buildings, the baroque

    11. The Baroque style was theatrical and extravagant; anyone who entered was sure never to forgot


    12. The Baroque style was theatrical and extravagant as befitted a huge rockstar who had made it big as an overnight success


    13. He looked a bit like Christ on some baroque painting


    14. Baroque door gave out a buzz


    15. L€ne stepped to a Baroque sofa and sat down as the bordeaux


    16. Baroque door behind her


    17. to the wall, there stood a Baroque table with a golden dragon


    18. Peter looked at their reflection in the golden Baroque


    19. This was my conversion to the Baroque


    20. ON A FRIDAY EVENING in May 1972, Rusty had played down the bill from the whimsical baroque Irish folk duo Tir Na Nog at a beautiful little auditorium at St

    21. This was a symptom of her hangovers, she remembered, which, at the time she’d put hangovers behind her, had become baroque profusions of symptoms


    22. As if propelled by the sound of his own voice, he continued striding down Summerton’s streets, proclaiming as he went, “Look at that lousy architecture, the gimcrack scrimshaw rococo baroque shingles and hangons


    23. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes


    24. The train put wheels under them and here they run down the long road out of the Gothic and Baroque; look at their wagons and coaches, the carving like medieval shrines, all of it stuff once drawn by horses, mules, or, maybe, men


    25. “In this replacement Earth we’re building they’ve given me Africa to do and of course I’m doing it with all fjords again because I happen to like them, and I’m old fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent


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    Synonyms for "baroque"

    baroque baroqueness baroque era baroque period churrigueresco churrigueresque flashy adorned ornate superficial elaborate lavish flamboyant

    "baroque" definitions

    the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe


    elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century


    having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation


    of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750