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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

Portraits come in many incarnations—the rigorous realism of Holbein, the rococo elegance of Gainsborough, the harsh frankness of Lucian Freud, to name just a few.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

“If it has more than three notes in it, I’m thinking, ‘What is all this rococo nonsense?’”

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

The place was all red velvet, chandeliers, and rococo flourishes.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart


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