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    baroque - Dictionary definition and meaning for word baroque

    Definition
    (noun) the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe Definition
    (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
    Synonyms : baroqueness
    Definition
    (adj) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
    Example Sentence
    • the building...frantically baroque
    Definition
    (adj) of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for baroque

BAROQUE Obama....when we think of him, we see white house which is highly ornamental and extravagent in style....

remove the burkah....... and u see the most beautiful women.

baroque sounds like bareekee ka kaam on shawl.

We can remember it by reminding the last letters "...que" which we read in letter "A". >> Arabesque: which is a complex ornament. So, Baroque: highly ornate.

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Its pronunciation is 'buh-rokh' almost same as of broke > he got "broke" buying expensive ornaments for house

Baroque--Bar + oque (opaque)-- The "dance bar" was highly ornamented with the "opaque" glass.

BAROQUE- think of SHAHRUKH(pronounciation nearly the same). srk always overdoes the emotions(baada chaada kar dikha tha hai). so he is elaborate in his expression on emotions. i.e elaborate, flamboyant etc.

In Disney's Beauty and the Beast Cogsworth gives a tour of the BAROQUE castle and jokes, "If it isn't BAROQUE, don't fix it."

Bou(Bride in bengali and the bride always wears jeweleries in Bangladesh) rocks

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