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1. Baroque
   Baroque period, era in the history of the Western arts roughly coinciding with the 17th century. Its earliest manifestations, which occurred in Italy, date from the latter decades of the 16th century, while in some regions, notably Germany and colonial South America, certain of its culminating achievements did not occur until the 18th century. The work that distinguishes the Baroque period is stylistically complex, even contradictory. In general, however, the desire to evoke emotional states by …
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2. Baroque
   Baroque is a term first applied to ill-shaped pearls, but now denoting fantastic, bizarre, and decadent forms in art and even in nature. It is especially used in connection with an architectual style.
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3. baroque
   [adj] - having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation 2. [n] - elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
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4. Baroque
   The music of the period c. 1600 - 1750 - following the Renaissance and preceding the Classical era.
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5. Baroque
   A style current in England at end of 17th and early 18th centuries
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6. Baroque
   A style of art (including architecture) dating from 1600-1760AD. It is a florid and extravagant style - it was not widely taken up in Britain, as it was widely associated with the Catholic countries of Europe.
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7. Baroque
   An early logic programming language written by Boyer and Moore in 1972. ["Computational Logic: Structure Sharing and Proof of program Properties", J. Moore, DCL Memo 67, U Edinburgh 1974]. [Jargon File] (1995-02-22)
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8. baroque
   Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (especially) software designs, this has many of the connotations of elephantine or monstrosity but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself. "Metafont even has features to introduce random variations to its letterform output. Now *that* is baroque!" See also rococo.…
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9. Baroque
   Highly emotional style in architecture, painting and sculpture, at height from c.1630-80 in Rome but influential across Europe. Greatest exponents: sculptor and architect Bernini in Rome, and in northern Europe, Rubens, whose ceiling decorations done for Charles I (Stuart) in the Banqueting Hall in London are still in place. Rubens's great pupil Va …
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10. baroque
    irregular pearl Category: Domestic economy
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11. Baroque
    A period of art essentially dating from around the seventeenth century, that played on effect from surprise, breaking classical rules, and delighting in movement and curves.
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12. Baroque
    Ba·roque" adjective [ F.; confer Italian barocco .] (Architecture) In bad taste; grotesque; odd.
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13. Baroque
    Ba·roque" adjective Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.
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14. baroque
    churrigueresque adjective having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; `the building...frantically baroque`-William Dean Howells
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15. baroque
    baroqueness noun elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
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16. Baroque
    In the arts, the `Baroque` was a Western cultural epoch, commencing roughly at the turn of the 17th century in Rome, that was exemplified by drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music.. In music, the term 'Baroque' applies to the final period of dominance of imitative counterpoint, where different voices and instruments echo each other but at different pitches, sometimes inverting the echo, and e...
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17. Baroque
    In the arts, the `Baroque` was a Western cultural epoch, commencing roughly at the turn of the 17th century in Rome, that was exemplified by drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music.. In music, the term 'Baroque' applies to the final period of dominance of imitative counterpoint, where different voices and instruments echo each other but at different pitches, sometimes inverting the echo, and e...
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18. Baroque
    • (a.) In bad taste; grotesque; odd. • (a.) Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.
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19. Baroque
    An extravagant and heavily ornate style of architecture, furniture, and decoration that originated in 17th century Italy.
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20. Baroque
    Style of art popular in Italy and throughout Europe in the 17th century. It consisted of rich and elaborate detail and complex design. The term possibly derived from the Spanish barrueca (a rare type of pearl with an uneven shape) which later assumed the French form, baroque.
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