French Rococo came to creation during the late 17th and late 18th centuries, with the word originating from a combination of the French word "rocaille," or shell, and the Italian "barocco," or Baroque style.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Although a bit overly restored for my taste, it bears witness to a naturalist style in French decorative arts known as rocaille which came to its apogee during the reign of Louis XV (1715-1774).    From Wordnik.com.  [Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Art Market Buzz] Reference

18th centuries, with the word originating from a combination of the French word "rocaille," or shell, and the Italian "barocco," or Baroque style.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

He had a most marvelous power of invention and lavished ornament on everything, carrying the rocaille style to its utmost limit.    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

The rocaille (shell) ornament on the Chippendale as well as the cabriole leg copied from Italy and France, and the Dutch foot from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference

During the time of Louis XVI the pose of rustic simplicity was a very sophisticated pose indeed, but the reaction from the rocaille style of.    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

Although the rocaille style would soon begin to see its demise (ironically, with Joseph at the helm in the creation of severely neoclassical furniture) the asymmetrical cartouche flanked by "wet leaves" and c scrolls crowning the top drawer draw directly from its repertoire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Art Market Buzz] Reference

The name, first used in the 19th century, combines the French rocaille, from the shell-embedded rocky grottoes popular in design and illustration, with the Italian barocco, the elaborate 17th-century Baroque that replaced a more restrained Renaissance classicism, to suggest a freely fluid alliance of nature and art.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lure of the Curve] 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

A new style emerged which was to characterize the epoch: the ornamental form of the rocaille became the leitmotiv of the Rococo, giving the epoch its name.    From Wordnik.com.  [PR.com Press Releases] Reference

Etymology: French, irregular from rocaille; from the prevalence of rocaille ornamentation in 18th century France someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference

This style received its name in the nineteenth century from French émigrés, who used the word to designate in whimsical fashion the old shellwork style (style rocaille), then regarded as Old Frankish, as opposed to the succeeding more simple styles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love and magistracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference