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plateresque

plateresque adjective: pertaining to an ornate style of architecture of 16th-century Spain suggestive of silver plate.

Adjective (1)

plateresque (comparative more plateresque, superlative most plateresque)

  1. Pertaining to an ornate style of architecture of 16th-century Spain suggestive of silver plate.

Adjective (2) capitalized: Plateresque

Plateresque (comparative more Plateresque, superlative most Plateresque)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of plateresque.

Forms of plateresque

comparativemore plateresque
superlativemost plateresque
comparativemore Plateresque
superlativemost Plateresque

Origin of plateresque

From Spanish plateresco (“in the manner of a silversmith”), from platero (“silversmith”), from plata (“silver”).

Questions about plateresque

What does plateresque mean?
Plateresque means pertaining to an ornate style of architecture of 16th-century Spain suggestive of silver plate.
What part of speech is plateresque?
Plateresque is an adjective.

Words near plateresque in the dictionary

  1. plateosaurids
  2. plateosaurs
  3. plateosaurus
  4. plateosauruses
  5. plater
  6. plateresque
  7. Platero
  8. plateroom
  9. platerooms
  10. plateroon
  11. Plateros

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plateresque (page history and authors); Plateresque (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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