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1. Baroque
   [video game] Baroque is a role-playing video game developed by Sting Entertainment and published by Atlus in the United States, originally developed for the Sega Saturn and later ported to the PlayStation. It was later remade by Sting, where it was to be a planned exclusive for Japan. Howeve...
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2. Baroque
   The period in music history that spans from ca. 1600 to 1750. During the Baroque period, opera was born through the efforts of the Florentine Camerata and operas of Monteverdi (Orfeo). Late Baroque operas would include those of G. F. Handel (Rinaldo).
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3. 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...
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4. 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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5. Baroque
   Baroque is a term that refers to irregularly shaped stones or pearls .
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6. Baroque
   [art and architecture] Shipping companies in South Korea. ...
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7. Baroque
   [band] Baroque (stylized as baroque) is a Japanese visual kei rock band originally formed in 2001. Originally signed to S`Cube, a sub-division of the independent record label Free-Will, the band later switched to the company`s Firewall Division, with distribution handled by Sony Music Entert...
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8. 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 achie...
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9. 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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10. Baroque
    The music of the period c. 1600 - 1750 - following the Renaissance and preceding the Classical era.
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11. Baroque
    A style current in England at end of 17th and early 18th centuries
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12. 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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13. 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 ...
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14. baroque
    irregular pearl Category: Domestic economy
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15. 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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16. Baroque
    Ba·roque' adjective [ F.; confer Italian barocco .] (Architecture) In bad taste; grotesque; odd.
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17. Baroque
    Ba·roque' adjective Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.
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18. baroque
    churrigueresque adjective having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; `the building...frantically baroque`-William Dean Howells
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19. baroque
    baroqueness noun elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
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20. Baroque
    • (a.) In bad taste; grotesque; odd. • (a.) Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.
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21. 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 architectural style. Baroque is a European style of architecture confined to churches and palaces.
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22. Baroque
    The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music. The style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Euro...
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23. Baroque
    An extravagant and heavily ornate style of architecture, furniture, and decoration that originated in 17th century Italy.
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24. 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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25. baroque
    baroque, in music, a style that prevailed from the last decades of the 16th cent. to the first decades of the 18th cent. Its beginnings were in the late 16th-century revolt against polyphony that gave rise to the accompanied recitative and to opera. With opera and recitative came the figured bass, u...
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