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rococo

[ruh-koh-koh, roh-kuh-koh] / rəˈkoʊ koʊ, ˌroʊ kəˈkoʊ /
ADJECTIVE
gaudy
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Also looking to art history is Colette LaVette, whose canvases at Gillian Jason ape rococo stylings in swirls of impressionistic paint.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

The mise en scène is sumptuously prepared with flourishes of rococo drollery.

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 2026

Parliament’s “Mothership Connection,” released 50 years ago this month, was a rococo musical milestone that bridged funk’s hammering, rhythmic pulse and the emerging hip-hop movement in New York and Los Angeles.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 29, 2025

This was on a recent morning in a rococo hotel room, just west of Madison Square Park.

From New York Times Apr. 2, 2024

Old buildings, whose gray rococo facades housed my memories of the Forty-Niners, and Diamond Lil, Robert Service, Sutter and Jack London, were then imposing structures viciously joined to keep me out.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou




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