rocaille
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rocaille
1855–60; < French: pebble-work, derivative of roc rock 1
Example Sentences
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Most of the time it is turgid rocaille, nothing more.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was in keeping with the delicate French rocaille tradition on which Papillon was nurtured; to him any other contemporary style of book decoration was evidence of bad taste.
From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob
After the death of its owner society, in a fit of madness, plunged into the rocaille.
From The House in Good Taste by Wolfe, Elsie de
He had a most marvelous power of invention and lavished ornament on everything, carrying the rocaille style to its utmost limit.
From Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today by Throop, Lucy Abbot
The elder Caffieri was, indeed, the most consummate practitioner of the style rocaille, which he constantly redeemed from its mannered conventionalism by the ease and mastery with which he treated it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
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