How to Use rococo in a Sentence

rococo

adjective

• The chairs are carved in a rococo style.
• What inspired the rococo meringues over the doors and niches?
  — Lisa Cregan, House Beautiful, 19 Jan. 2017
• What inspired the rococo meringues over the doors and niches?
  — Lisa Cregan, House Beautiful, 19 Jan. 2017
• And their look flits from rococo one day to bohemian the next.
  — Leigh-Ann Jackson, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The wings might belong to cherubs, common in rococo scenes.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
• Chairish Schitt's Creek co-creator Dan Levy raves about the site, which hosts this rococo mirror; $550; chairish.com.
  — Abigail Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2019
• The White House decor might be a bit subdued for him though, since the penthouse was modeled after the Palace of Versailles, with rococo decor and a profuse amount of gold.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2017
• The White House decor might be a bit subdued for him though, since the penthouse was modeled after the Palace of Versailles, with rococo decor and a profuse amount of gold.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 15 Aug. 2017
• In the early 1700s, the Baroque gave way to the more sentimental Rococo style, typified by soft pinks and blues, light curves and amorous gods and maidens.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 15 June 2017
• Several books of rococo paintings are opened to pages with scenes that echo the ones Kassewitz painted.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
• There are plenty of Régence and rococo pieces, but everything is done with such a light hand that the space feels unexpectedly airy.
  — Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor, 4 Nov. 2011
• Among the highlights of the 200-item show is the reunion of six related mythological paintings by François Boucher, a rococo painter who made them for a Parisian mansion.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Moira Buffini, who adapted Jane Eyre beautifully for the cinema in 2011, has had a lot of fun with the dialogue, which manages to be rococo and Gothic at the same time.
  — Viv Groskop, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2017
• The Saarinen dining table had been Udell's longtime desk, while the living room's rococo wall clock and the entry's side tables all belonged to Turshen's grandmother.
  — Samuel Cochran, ELLE Decor, 18 Oct. 2010
• Set amid manicured gardens, a carp pond, and an ensemble of rococo palaces, this 18th-century castle stands as a reminder of Berlin’s proud Prussian past.
  — National Geographic, 9 Nov. 2019
• Still, however rococo Trump's taste in interiors is, his palate is much more modest.
  — Marisa Meltzer, Town & Country, 1 Jan. 2017
• Lustrous Sara Mearns scaled the heights and plumbed the depths of the choreography’s often rococo dimensions, in which Tyler Angle, as her partner, embodied the adoring cavalier.
  — Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 25 July 2017
• Though it is decorated in a mostly modern style, with clean white walls and sisal carpets, Oliver Messel’s tastefully rococo presence is felt here too.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 10 Mar. 2017
• The sound of circular saws echoed from inside, where workmen were restoring the 300-year-old rococo cathedral to its pre-Soviet glory—allegedly with money from the illicit amber trade.
  — Brendan Hoffman, National Geographic, 31 Jan. 2017
• This was not limited to sartorial touches; rococo flourish was present in all genres of French art, from painting to furniture design.
  — Vogue, 9 Apr. 2018
• Così fan tutte touches on all these issues of the human condition with an exquisite lightness of touch that belongs to the late rococo world of the ancien régime in Europe but still speaks to us in a recognizable postwar American setting.
  — Larry Wolff, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2018
• Kendall took a cue from her own 21st birthday dress (and thus eternal aughts muse Paris Hilton) in a silver metal mesh, spaghetti strap mini dress with a triangle hem, accented with black lace and bedazzled rococo 3D embellishments.
  — Emily Kirkpatrick, PEOPLE.com, 22 May 2017
• The look: Lavishly gilded rococo theatrics in the historic rooms, modern minimalism in others.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• A six-character piece for women, the play is a fascinating rococo experiment in power—the sadomasochism that, for Fassbinder, at least, defines most human interactions.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• From elegant rococo music of the Baroque to the glorious orchestral sound of the 19th century, the festival is an opportunity to experience the wide variety of music.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 25 Aug. 2017
• In Steingaden, the bucolic meadow and plain façade of Wieskirche belie the rococo church’s glorious cupola, gilded stucco, and marble balustrades, all mystically illuminated by the large windows.
  — National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2019
• My interest now, more aesthetic than athletic, is increasingly in the players’ rococo hairdos, body tattoos and exotic first names.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
• Conducted by David Bloom, the quartet nimbly negotiated the score’s fluid transitions from gritty waltzes to punk-rock explosions, from rococo ornaments to dissonant chords.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
• Every item — brocade sofas, velvet upholstered chairs, metal hinges, parquet de Versailles floors — is period perfect; Smith will brook no interruption of his rococo illusion.
  — Nancy Hass, New York Times, 8 May 2018
• The Warfield was a glamorous old theater with an elaborately detailed rococo interior, grand antebellum-style spiral stairwells, and enormous chandeliers.
  — Rachel Kushner, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024