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Rocoʹco Jewellery

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strictly speaking, means showy jewellery made up of several different stones. Moorish decoration and Watteau’s paintings are rococo. The term is now generally used depreciatingly for flashy, gaudy. Louis XIV. furniture, with gilding and ormolu, is sometimes termed rococo.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Rock ahead (A)
Rock Cork
Rock Crystal
Rock Day
Rococo
Rococo Architecture
Rococo Jewellery
Rod
Rod-men
Rod in Pickle (A)
Roderick
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Roderigo
Rodhaver
Rodilardus
Rodolpho (Count)
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