It is a well laid out town, with large public gardens and good buildings, architecturally very like the larger Italian towns on the other side of the old frontier, Udine for example, but with a certain element of a heavier and more rococo style, the Viennese.

The iron gates clanged, the door of the opera bus snapped, and Sacharissa strolled back into the rococo reception room not quite certain why she had not gone, not quite convinced that she was feeling perfectly well.

In each of the thousand Louis XVI operating rooms a Destyn-Carr wireless instrument was to stand upon a rococo table.

The Frari had taken their position on the right, under the elaborate hanging tomb of Fra Pacificoa mass of sculpture, rococo, and gilding; the incense rising from the censer swinging below the coffin of the saint carried the eye insensibly upward to the grotesque canopy, where cumbrous marble clouds were compacted of dense masses of saints' and cherubs' heads with uncompromising golden halos.

And yet he eminently reflects his own time, the gay, the light-hearted Gustavian era, with its classical fancies and rococo tastes.

[Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant^; baroque, rococo.

It is, of course, true enough that some faces are spoilt by flaws such as every Mrs. Moggridge can point out,faces that begin in one style and end in another, half Greek perhaps and half Gothic; yet even such faces, if their individuality is strong enough, have their own rococo charm.

"I meant what was the style of the houseJacobean, Georgian?" "Brixtonian rococo outwardly," I said, "as far as I can judge; but very snug inside.

Sylvia began to plan out a comparison of dress with architecture, bringing out the insistent tendency in both to the rococo, to the burying of structural lines in ornamentation.

It still further degenerated into the Rococo, the most extravagant and exaggerated of all the historic styles, and which prevailed in the latter part of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century.

Vol.2, book 2: Baroque and Rococo; book 3: Enlightenment and revolution.

Vol.2, book 2: Baroque and Rococo; book 3: Enlightenment and revolution.

GECK, FRANCIS JOSEPH. Bibliography of Italian Rococo art.

Historical anthology of music: baroque, rococo, and pre-classical music.

Mine is immense, with two suites of impossible rococo Louis XV.

Then came a rococo and affected age, neat, conceited, and trim; yet in the middle of that stood out a great rugged figure like Johnson, full to the brim of impassioned force.

It was a heavy and complicated erection, of a sumptuous and rococo style, which had cost the second Cardinal de Bourbon a fortune at the beginning of last century.

Notice the image presented by this sentence from Henry James: "Her dress was dark and rich; she had pearls around her neck and an old rococo fan in her hand."

If the meaning of rococo is unknown to you, the image which you form will not be exactly the one that Mr. James had in mind.

If your attention is directed to the fan, you may recall the word rococo, but not the image represented by it.

Used with discretion it may be one of the subtlest ornaments of style, and even when fulfilling no particular purpose is capable of imparting a luxuriant and somewhat rococo richness to the verse.

At first a jeweller's technical term, it came later, like "rococo," to be used to describe the kind of ornament which prevailed in design of the nineteenth century, after the disappearance of the classic.

On the other hand, lounging-chairs, suited to the length or shortness of any back; rococo photograph stands, framing either a great many men, or a few men in a great many attitudes; soothing picturesdécolleté Venuses, Love's greuze headstied up with rose-ribbon, and a sleepy half-light.

Ask who all the men in the rococo frames are?which of them, or whether any, is Mr. Huntley?

ROCOCO, name given to a debased style of architecture, overlaid with a tasteless, senseless profusion of fantastic ornamentation, without unity of design or purpose, which prevailed in France and elsewhere in the 18th century.