Watteau
Americannoun
noun
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Carriera, who was one of the most fashionable artists of her day, created portraits of many notable figures, including Louis XV of France, English author Horace Walpole and French painter Antoine Watteau.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025
And Oscar de la Renta stole the show with an Audrey Hepburn-inspired cocktail dress featuring a hem-length Watteau train that converts into a veil.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2021
What did the Impressionists Berthe Morisot and Renoir see in the Rococo painters Watteau and Fragonard?
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2020
According to a museum spokesman, the Watteau does not now face a hold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2017
We compromised at last on a blue silk that's going to have a Watteau pleat and will fall in nice little straight folds and make me look about seven feet high.
From The Whirligig of Time by Wayland Wells Williams
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