Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
Characteristic of Western art music of about the same period.
Origin
Via French baroque (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape), from Portuguese barroco ("irregular pearl"); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verrūca ("wart"). It has been suggested that the term derives from Baroco, a technical term from scholastic logic.
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