noun
- The historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe.
- synonyms: Baroque era, Baroque period
- Elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century.
- synonyms: baroqueness
adjective
- Having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation."the building... Frantically baroque-William Dean Howells
- synonyms: churrigueresque, churrigueresco
- Of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750. .
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