There is an exhibit of rococo art and furniture at the local museum. From LearnThat.org.
An exquisite gilded rococo mirror. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The stitch illustrated in fig. 87 is known as rococo stitch. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
The stitch between these groups is generally known as the rococo stitch. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopedia of Needlework] Reference
Enlightenment, to realism, though on occasion it has affinities with what could be called rococo in its artistic style. From Wordnik.com. [CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE] Reference
Installed in rococo splendor. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Clothier: Big Day at LACMA] Reference
Still, if "rococo" could be applied to dressing, this would be it. From Wordnik.com. [A Bit of Fluff: Late Baroque Fashions] Reference
Call it "rococo," call it "baroque" in its passion for ornamentation and its uninhibited excess. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Clothier: Miriam Wosk 1947 - 2010: A Tribute by Peter Clothier] Reference
Nothing 'rococo' or effete in this reading, which for my money, only Cantelli exceeds!. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
"Oh, Don Ippolito's a pagan, I tell you; and I'm a painter, and the rococo is my weakness. From Wordnik.com. [A Foregone Conclusion] Reference
In furniture, the Louis XV style is generally said to be "rococo," which is derived from the French "rocaille," meaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
If one wished to be rococo, why not be altogether so?. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
They waited in a strange rococo group against the snow. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
The word suggests much the same order of ideas as rococo. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
He was considered the master of rococo porcelain sculpture. From Wordnik.com. [The Taste-Maker] Reference
The things Gertie digs up and tries on are really too rococo. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
In architecture the rococo style is an example of this excess. From Wordnik.com. [The Practice and Science of Drawing] Reference
The decline came when good taste was lost in the craze for rococo. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
And yet this strange, fantastic, rococo district, if beyond the pale of. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Under it, the building entrance was gilded and carved into fantastic rococo shapes. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
The silver meat hooks are by turns bleakly functional or rococo in their curlicues. From Wordnik.com. [Jannis Kounellis] Reference
There is nothing too rococo for the peripatetic vender in these foreign watering-places. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
The spires and porticos, the colonnades and entrances are replete with rococo decorations. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference
Only later, in new tool types, did they imitate the rococo flourish of their European predecessors. From Wordnik.com. [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference
I stitched boys 'pants in a Polish sweatshop, and lived for two days in New York's most rococo hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Unfortunately it is this rococo style which is meant by many people when they speak of the style of Louis XV. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
One end rose into a rococo tower, lit then with the curious kind of clearness produced by a half-moon's light. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference
For the first time Dorsenne forgot it; he forgot also to gaze with delight upon the rococo fountain on the Place. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But its elephantine woodwork repelled her, for she had grown up amid the rococo exuberances of Paris apartments. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
But the next day Flynt invited reporters to his rococo offices to claim that Livingston had had "" dozens '' of affairs. From Wordnik.com. [Washington At War] Reference
Georges; the earlier ornate, rococo forms; and the yet earlier massive styles of the time of Queen Anne and long before. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
Usually Ted, who lives in a rather rococo cubbyhole on the second floor, beats the others to the phone from force of habit. From Wordnik.com. [There's Something In A Sunday]
It rose amid subtropical vegetation, fountains and statuary, a solid structure, ornamented in the rococo style of fifty years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
Big blowouts for a thousand in rococo villas overlooking the Mediterranean, small postscreening dinners for a hundred at the beach. From Wordnik.com. [When the In Crowd Gets an In Crowd] Reference
As for his health-care reforms, well: Granted, the reforms proposed by President Clinton and his helpmeet were more rococo than Kerry's. From Wordnik.com. [THE DEFLATION OF POLITICS] Reference
Poetry, as it exists for us, is a pretty rococo fancy; to the worshippers and framers of myths it was a truth of tremendous significance. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
It is not a bow-knot and a rococo curve or two that will turn a modern room, fresh from the builder's hands, into a Louis XV drawing-room. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
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