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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 424 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAROQUE , a technical See also:

term, chiefly applicable to See also:architecture, See also:furniture and See also:household decoration. 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 See also:craft of the jeweller. It indicates the more extravagant fashions of See also:design that were See also:common in the first See also:half of the 18th See also: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 See also:restraint and simplicity. The word suggests much the same See also:order of ideas as See also:rococo.

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