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rococo

[ruh-koh-koh, roh-kuh-koh] / rəˈkoʊ koʊ, ˌroʊ kəˈkoʊ /
ADJECTIVE
gaudy
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Parliament’s “Mothership Connection,” released 50 years ago this month, was a rococo musical milestone that bridged funk’s hammering, rhythmic pulse and the emerging hip-hop movement in New York and Los Angeles.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 29, 2025

Portraits come in many incarnations—the rigorous realism of Holbein, the rococo elegance of Gainsborough, the harsh frankness of Lucian Freud, to name just a few.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

People were befuddled by Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making passion project, a rococo take on the collapse of an empire.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, 2025

Savoca contrives a wedding night as filled with rococo confections as the interior of a Palermo church.

From New York Times Jan. 11, 2024

Pairs were nesting in the rococo architecture of the churches and Victorian houses.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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