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n. - Elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century.

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  • Verizon's offerings occupy a special category of bureaucratic baroqueness.
  • As a writer who since my teenaged days has had one foot in the Spanish world, that is, Spain, whose art, architecture and writing, has always included multiple highways and...
  • I can admire Avram Davidson for his baroqueness, and Hemingway for his plainness and Cormac McCarthy for both at different times in his career, but they were/are all...
  • And a few other odds and ends that aren’t mentioned much: It shouldn’t have any unnecessary protuberances or baroqueness.
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