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• Are we in baroque pitch for this one?From the entry pitch
• Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars.2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic. From the entry cloche
• Baroque is a good game, but only for a very narrow subset of the gaming audience.2008 May, Shoeless Wayne Santos, “Baroque” (game review), GameAxis Unwired, Hardware Zone Pte, page 51. From the entry definition
• Giunta became most fixated on the bouquets’ vases: typically baroque handblown Venetian goblets of sap-green glass.2007 June 3, David Colman, “When in the Netherlands...”, in New York Times. From the entry handblown
• Readers of seventeenth-century Polish texts— from baroque poetry through polemical pamphlets to forensic prose—are used to deciphering Polish-Latin macaronicisms.2013, David A. Frick, Kith, Kin, and Neighbors. From the entry macaronicism
• Soft baroque music pipes through the ornate, dripping-with-gold church sanctuary.2009, Susan Van Allen, “Churches Dedicated to Female Saints—Rome”, in 100 Places in Italy Every Woman should Go, Palo Alto, Calif.…. From the entry pipe
• To understand this pleaching of truth and untruth, we need to consider how facets of the baroque interact.2005, John D. Lyons, “Self-knowledge and the Advantages of Concealment: Pierre Nicole’s ‘On Self-knowledge’”, in Massimo Ciavolella…. From the entry pleaching
• “The rococo is the final deliquescence of the baroque,” he said, as if he really couldn’t be plainer.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry deliquescence
• Sfumato allows baroque subjectivity to create the near and the familiar among different intelligibilities, thus making cross-cultural dialogues possible and desirable.2002, Scott Lash, Mike Featherstone, editors, Recognition and Difference, SAGE Publications, page 200. From the entry sfumato
• I had a nicely appointed (realtors' jargon for Wally World baroque) mobile home, a sort of plush culvert on wheels, and a new dog.2004, Bob Wyatt., Trout Hunting: The Pursuit of Happiness, page 172. From the entry Wally World
• In baroque painting, sfumato is the blurring of outlines and colors amongst objects, as clouds and mountains, or the sea and the sky.2002, Scott Lash, Mike Featherstone, editors, Recognition and Difference, SAGE Publications, page 200. From the entry sfumato
• Hatred of baroque pretentiosity and the feeling that the ode-writers aspired too high produced many parodic odes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.1949, Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, page 638. From the entry pretentiosity
• We could see the poor brute in the bottom, as the vultures came wheeling down like baroque aeroplanes; its ribs were already bare.1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 8. From the entry wheel
• Substituting a Dolce for the Quintade for church use would make this little organ far more useful than some much larger baroque organs that I have played.1930, William Harrison Barnes, The contemporary american organ, page 312. From the entry quintade

Meaning of baroque

1. adjective Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
2. adjective Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
3. adjective Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.

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How do you use baroque in a sentence?

Baroque is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Are we in baroque pitch for this one?”

What is a short sentence with baroque?

“grotesquely baroque bureaucratic hassles”

What does baroque mean?

Baroque means ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.