baroque
/b rok/ • noun a highly ornate and complex style of European architecture, art, and music of the 17th and 18th centuries. • adjective 1 in or relating to this style or period. 2 highly ornate and extravagant in style. — ORIGIN French, from Portuguese barroco ‘irregularly shaped pearl’.
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