baroque

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ba·roque1 /bəˈrɒk, bəˈrəʊk $ bəˈroʊk, -ˈrɑːk/ adjectiveadj

ASHrelating to the very decorated style of art, music, buildings etc, that was common in Europe in the 17th and early 18th centuries 巴洛克风格的〔17至18世纪初在欧洲流行的一种华丽的风格，尤见于艺术、音乐、建筑等方面〕

furnished in a baroque style

以巴洛克风格陈设的

baroque music/architecture/paintings etc 巴洛克风格的音乐/建筑/绘画等

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baroque• The Virgin's shawl is of a distinctly baroque blue and the manger itself is full of plump Midwestern wheat stalks.• Often this effort achieves its end as baroque comedy.• a baroque composer• It is a baroque glory, constructed between 1543 and 1551.• He found old manuscripts and adapted or arranged them for groups performing ancient and baroque music.• Amid the glorious columned arches and baroque ornamentation of the Academy, Frederick Taylor commanded center stage.• Castrati made themselves eunuchs both for art's sake and for jobs in baroque Rome.• Construction was halted when excavation work on the baroque square unearthed the ruins of a medieval synagogue destroyed in 1421.• The remaining 14 selections are equally familiar baroque trumpet fare and they are all articulated with dazzling clarity and enthusiasm.

baroque style• There are two main styles of architecture: the earlier Gothic and the later Renaissance or baroque style.• It is furnished in a distinctive baroque style and public rooms include several sitting rooms and a lobby-bar.

baroque2 noun

the baroque used to describe baroque art, music, buildings etc 巴洛克风格

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baroque• These were from early baroque to the enlightenment, and again from the beginning of the twentieth century to the avant-garde.• What Tully built for Goldney was predictably a piece of safe, old fashioned Baroque.• Camillo Sitte's traditionalist and communitarian critique of the Ringstrasse emphasizes instead the above-indicated continuity of the baroque and the modern.• The intention is to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony.

Origin baroque

(1700-1800) French “not regular, baroque”, from Portuguese barroco or Spanish barrueco “pearl not of a regular shape”

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