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baroque

ba.roque \b*-'ro-k, ba-, -'ra:k\ aj [F, fr. It barocco] : of, relating to, 
   or having the characteristics of a style of artistic e xpression prevalent 
   esp. in the 17th century that is marked generally by elaborate and 
   sometimes grotesque ornamentation and specifically also in architecture by 
   dynamic opposition and the use of curved and plastic figures, in music by 
   improvisation, contrasting effects, and powerful tensions, and in 
   literature by complexity of form and bizarre, ingenious, and often 
   ambiguous imagery - baroque n