Rococo

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rococo \Ro*co"co\, n. [F.; of uncertain etymology.]
     A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in
     the latter part of the eighteenth century.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Rococo \Ro*co"co\, a.
     Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo;
     florid; fantastic.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rococo
       adj : having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite
             gilded rococo mirror"
       n : fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and
           architecture that originated in France in the 18th
           century

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "rococo":
     Gothic, arabesque, archaic, baroque, baroqueness, bizarre,
     brain-born, busy, bygone, chichi, chinoiserie, dated, deformed,
     dream-built, elaborate, elaborateness, elegance, elegant,
     extravagant, fanciful, fanciness, fancy, fancy-born, fancy-built,
     fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, fine, fineness, flamboyance,
     flamboyant, florid, floridity, floridness, floweriness, flowery,
     freak, freakish, frilly, fussy, grotesque, high-wrought, labored,
     luxuriance, luxuriant, luxurious, luxuriousness, maggoty,
     malformed, misbegotten, misshapen, moldy, monstrous, moresque,
     moth-eaten, notional, old hat, ornate, ostentation, ostentatious,
     outdated, outlandish, overelaborate, overelaborateness,
     overelegance, overelegant, overlabored, overornamentation,
     overworked, overwrought, passe, picturesque, preposterous,
     pretty-pretty, rich, richness, teratogenic, teratoid, whimsical,
     wild
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  rococo adj. Terminally {baroque}. Used to imply that a program has
     become so encrusted with the software equivalent of gold leaf and
     curlicues that they have completely swamped the underlying design.
     Called after the later and more extreme forms of Baroque architecture
     and decoration prevalent during the mid-1700s in Europe. Alan Perlis
     said: "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble."
     Compare {critical mass}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  rococo
       
           {Baroque} in the extreme.  Used to imply that
          a program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent
          of gold leaf and curlicues that they have completely swamped
          the underlying design.  Called after the later and more
          extreme forms of Baroque architecture and decoration prevalent
          during the mid-1700s in Europe.  Alan Perlis said: "Every
          program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble."
       
          Compare {critical mass}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1996-04-06)