baroque

1. Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.

2. Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.

3. Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.

4. Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.

5. (capitalized, sometimes)Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.

   of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750

6. (figuratively)Overly and needlessly complicated.

   grotesquely baroque bureaucratic hassles

   baroque bookkeeping in pursuit of tax dodges

1. I have no trouble sight-singing baroque music.

   deEs fällt mir nicht schwer, Barockmusik vom Blatt zu singen.

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2. Tom likes Baroque music.

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3. She prefers quiet music - the baroque, for example.

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4. In the villa, there's a large baroque room.

   deIn der Villa existiert ein großes barockes Zimmer.

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5. The former baroque residence of the abbot now houses the town history museum.

   deIn der einstigen barocken Residenz des Abtes ist nun das Museum für Stadtgeschichte beheimatet.

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