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BAROQUE , a technical See also: term, chiefly applicable to architecture, furniture and See also: household decoration
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Apparently of See also: Spanish origin—a barrueco is a large, irregularly-shaped pearl—the word was for a See also: time confined to the craft of the jeweller
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It indicates the more extravagant fashions of design that were See also: common in the first See also: half of the 18th century, chiefly in See also: Italy and See also: France, in which everything is fantastic, See also: grotesque, florid or incongruous—irregular shapes, meaningless forms, an utter lack of restraint and simplicity
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The word suggests much the same See also: order of ideas as See also: rococo
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