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rococo

[ruh-koh-koh, roh-kuh-koh] / rəˈkoʊ koʊ, ˌroʊ kəˈkoʊ /
ADJECTIVE
gaudy
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Drake is a rococo master of self-pity, but damned if he doesn’t have a real reason for it this time.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Also looking to art history is Colette LaVette, whose canvases at Gillian Jason ape rococo stylings in swirls of impressionistic paint.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The mise en scène is sumptuously prepared with flourishes of rococo drollery.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

This was on a recent morning in a rococo hotel room, just west of Madison Square Park.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024

Old buildings, whose gray rococo facades housed my memories of the Forty-Niners, and Diamond Lil, Robert Service, Sutter and Jack London, were then imposing structures viciously joined to keep me out.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou




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