Thesaurus / rococo
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A small palace, also rococo, peeped out behind a clump of bushy oaks.
DREAM TALES AND PROSE POEMSIVAN TURGENEVFinally, in the eighteenth century, comes rococo, with its rustling frou-frou and its delicate charm.
THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING, VOLUME 1 (OF 4)RICHARD MUTHERAmongst the elders of the actual rococo age, contentment and gaiety still rule.
THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING, VOLUME 1 (OF 4)RICHARD MUTHERShall I buy you Mademoiselle de Maupin, so that all her rococo soul may dance with gilded limbs across your vision?
SINISTER STREET, VOL. 1COMPTON MACKENZIEThus Diderot upheld the sentimental and emotional subject against the ftes galantes of the rococo painter.
THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING, VOLUME 1 (OF 4)RICHARD MUTHERYes, after the stimulating champagne of rococo, people had even come to delight in simple black bread.
THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING, VOLUME 1 (OF 4)RICHARD MUTHERThe figures are painted with a strength and bloom which are still quite worthy of the rococo.
THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING, VOLUME 1 (OF 4)RICHARD MUTHERYou 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 HOWELLSNo local school of Italian rococo ever produced more extravagant absurdities.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 15, SLICE 4VARIOUSIn winter breakfast was eaten by the light of a rococo metal lamp set in the centre of the table.
THE DWELLING PLACE OF LIGHT, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILLWORDS RELATED TO ROCOCO
- adorned
- aureate
- baroque
- beautiful
- bedecked
- bright
- brilliant
- busy
- colored
- convoluted
- dazzling
- elaborate
- elegant
- embroidered
- fancy
- fine
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- florid
- flowery
- fussy
- gaudy
- gilded
- glamorous
- glitzy
- glossy
- high-wrought
- jeweled
- lavish
- luscious
- magnificent
- meretricious
- opulent
- ornamented
- ostentatious
- overdone
- overelaborate
- pretentious
- resplendent
- rich
- rococo
- showy
- sparkling
- splashy
- sumptuous
- superficial
- tawdry
- variegated
- ancient
- antiquated
- antique
- archaic
- behind the times
- bygone
- corny
- dated
- dead
- demoded
- disapproved
- dowdy
- démodé
- extinct
- fusty
- grown old
- moldy
- musty
- neglected
- not current
- not modern
- not with it
- obsolescent
- obsolete
- odd
- of old
- of olden days
- of the old school
- old
- old-fangled
- old-hat
- old-time
- olden
- oldfangled
- out
- out of it
- out of style
- out-of-date
- out-of-style
- outdated
- outmoded
- outworn
- passé
- past
- primitive
- rococo
- superannuated
- unfashionable
- unstylish
- vintage
- ancient
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- antique
- archaic
- behind the times
- bygone
- corny
- dated
- dead
- demoded
- disapproved
- dowdy
- démodé
- extinct
- fusty
- grown old
- moldy
- musty
- neglected
- not current
- not modern
- not with it
- obsolescent
- obsolete
- odd
- of old
- of olden days
- of the old school
- old
- old-fangled
- old-hat
- old-time
- olden
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- out
- out of it
- out of style
- out-of-date
- out-of-style
- outdated
- outmoded
- outworn
- passé
- past
- primitive
- rococo
- superannuated
- unfashionable
- unstylish
- vintage
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