Thesaurus / rococo

rococo

How to use rococo in a sentence

A small palace, also rococo, peeped out behind a clump of bushy oaks.

Finally, in the eighteenth century, comes rococo, with its rustling frou-frou and its delicate charm.

Amongst the elders of the actual rococo age, contentment and gaiety still rule.

Shall I buy you Mademoiselle de Maupin, so that all her rococo soul may dance with gilded limbs across your vision?

Thus Diderot upheld the sentimental and emotional subject against the ftes galantes of the rococo painter.

Yes, after the stimulating champagne of rococo, people had even come to delight in simple black bread.

The figures are painted with a strength and bloom which are still quite worthy of the rococo.

You know the way he had when a thing pleased him, especially a thing that had some relish of the quaint or rococo.

QUESTIONABLE SHAPESWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

No local school of Italian rococo ever produced more extravagant absurdities.

In winter breakfast was eaten by the light of a rococo metal lamp set in the centre of the table.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985