English-Thai Dictionary

Rococo

N รูปแบบ การ ตกแต่ง ที่ นิยม ใน ยุโรป ช่วง ศตวรรษ ที่18  rub-beab-kan-tok-tang-ti-ni-yom-nai-yu-rob-sad-ta-wad-chueng-yuk-ti18

 

rococo

ADJ เกี่ยวกับ รูปแบบ รูปแบบ การ ตกแต่ง ที่ นิยม ใน ยุโรป ช่วง ศตวรรษ ที่18  kiao-kab-rub-beab-kan-tok-tang-ti-ni-yom-nai-yu-rob-sad-ta-wad-chueng-yuk-ti18

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ROCOCO

Ro *co "co, n. Etym: [F.; of uncertain etymology. ]

 

Defn: A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.

 

ROCOCO

ROCOCO Ro *co "co, a.

 

Defn: Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

rococo

ro co co |rəˈkōkō, ˌrōkəˈkō rəˈkoʊkoʊ | ▶adjective (of furniture or architecture ) of or characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th -century Continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork. • extravagantly or excessively ornate, esp. (of music or literature ) highly ornamented and florid. ▶noun the rococo style of art, decoration, or architecture. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from French, humorous alteration of rocaille .

 

Oxford Dictionary

rococo

rococo |rəˈkəʊkəʊ | ▶adjective denoting furniture or architecture characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th -century continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork. • (especially of music or literature ) extravagantly or excessively ornate. ▶noun [ mass noun ] the rococo style of art, decoration, or architecture. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from French, humorous alteration of rocaille .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

rococo

rococo adjective rococo draperies: ornate, fancy, elaborate, extravagant, baroque; fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy; flowery, florid, flamboyant, high-flown, magniloquent, orotund, bombastic, overwrought, overblown, inflated, turgid; informal highfalutin. ANTONYMS plain. WORD NOTE rococo, baroque In the complex, intricate, sometimes confusing and generally Byzantine world of choice and subtlety that is the English language, it is sometimes necessary to decide whether, in describing things that are similarly complex, intricate, and Byzantine, it is proper to employ the adjective rococo or baroque. Essentially the words have senses which are synonymous, though their etymologies (both have French origins ) are not: rococo has something to do with ornate shell- or pebble-based decoration, while baroque may stem, oddly, from the very same root that gives us the far less appealing word verruca, the highly transmissible plantar wart to which the feet of summertime athletes are prone. In view of this displeasing association, baroque might seem to lean in a subtly pejorative direction —except that with the typical perversity of the language, usage suggests quite otherwise. Rococo has now come to mean tastelessly and tackily florid and ornate, while baroque is merely curlicued and frantically odd, but only whimsically so. Thus if it —whether by ‘it ’ we mean a hairpiece, a chair leg, or a State of the Union address —is complicated, intricate, and vulgar, it is rococo. If it is merely endowed with flowery intricacy, but is more or less acceptable to a person of reasonable taste, it is best described simply as baroque. — SW Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

rococo

rococo adjective rococo Victorian wrought ironwork: ornate, fancy, very elaborate, curlicued, over-elaborate, extravagant, baroque, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, wedding-cake, gingerbread; flowery, florid, flamboyant, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, grandiloquent, orotund, rhetorical, oratorical, bombastic, overwrought, overblown, overdone, convoluted, turgid, inflated; informal highfalutin, purple; rare tumid, pleonastic, euphuistic, aureate, Ossianic, fustian, hyperventilated. ANTONYMS plain, simple.

 

French Dictionary

rococo

rococo adj. inv. et n. m. nom masculin Style artistique en vogue au XVIII e siècle. adjectif invariable 1 Qui appartient au rococo. : Des châteaux rococo. 2 péjoratif De mauvais goût, surchargé. : Des styles rococo. Prononciation Les trois o sont fermés, [rɔkɔko ]

 

Spanish Dictionary

rococó

rococó adjetivo /nombre masculino [estilo artístico ] Que se caracteriza por presentar ornamentos o decoración de inspiración naturalista de gusto muy refinado :el arte rococó; el rococó se originó en Francia bajo el reinado de Luis xv y se impuso en Europa en el siglo xviii .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

rococo

ro co co /rəkóʊkoʊ /〖＜フランス 〗名詞 U ロココ様式 〘18世紀前半に流行した華麗な美術 [装飾, 建築 ]様式 〙.形容詞 1 ロココ様式の .2 華美な ; 装飾過多の .