rococo
/ɹəˈkəʊkəʊ/
rococo noun: a style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
Noun
rococo (countable and uncountable, plural rococos)
- A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
- They built a rococo aedicule that stands around the Tomb today.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 384
- A piece of ornamentation in this style.
- Above the two chief figures are rococos on either side of the clock face. These, like all the other work, are in bold relief and wrought with great delicacy and grace. On the top of the clock is a realistic scene from nature.1896, The American Stationer, volume 40, page 793
- The marzipan and that kind of malleable ceramic, the rococo decorations, the flowers made of hard sugar, the frosted blue surfaces, kind of gray, the pearls, the legal coloring... all of it supposedly suitable for human consumption.2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 41
Adjective
rococo (comparative more rococo, superlative most rococo)
- Of or relating to the rococo style.
- Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent.
- Old-fashioned.
rococo meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Indonesian
rococo in Bengali
- রোকোকো স্টাইলের সাথে সম্পর্কিত, জটিল, ঐশ্বর্যশালী, সেকেলে
rococo in Malayalam
- elaborate, ornate, fancy
- പുഷ്കലാലങ്കാര സമൃദ്ധമായ, അനാവശ്യാലങ്കാരങ്ങൾ നിറഞ്ഞ, അമിതാഡംബരവസ്തുക്കൾ കുത്തിനിറച്ച, അലങ്കാരബഹുമായ, അലങ്കൃത, അത്യലംകൃതം
rococo in Indonesian
- style of baroque architecture etc.
- rococo
Forms of rococo
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | rococos |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more rococo |
| superlative | most rococo |
Origin of rococo
Borrowed from French rococo.
Words formed from rococo
Words that rhyme with rococo
Questions about rococo
- What does rococo mean?
- Rococo means a style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
- What is rococo in Bengali?
- Rococo in Bengali is রোকোকো স্টাইলের সাথে সম্পর্কিত, জটিল, ঐশ্বর্যশালী. See Rococo meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is rococo?
- Rococo can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce rococo?
- Rococo is pronounced /ɹəˈkəʊkəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of rococo?
- The plural of rococo is rococos.
Words near rococo in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rococo (page history and authors); rococo (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rococo (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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