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rococo

[ruh-koh-koh, roh-kuh-koh] / rəˈkoʊ koʊ, ˌroʊ kəˈkoʊ /
ADJECTIVE
gaudy
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Drake is a rococo master of self-pity, but damned if he doesn’t have a real reason for it this time.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 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

People were befuddled by Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making passion project, a rococo take on the collapse of an empire.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 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

Pairs were nesting in the rococo architecture of the churches and Victorian houses.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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