rococo
Example Sentences
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The palazzo is filled with ornate wall coverings and moldings, rococo furniture and artworks, and marble floors with intricately detailed inlays.
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.
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.
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
The circus movie “Freaks” had its world premiere here in 1932, and with its expensive organ, rococo interior design and grand chandeliers, the Fox was the local destination to see movies during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
From Los Angeles Times
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