rococo

plural rococos

1. uncountableA style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.

   They built a rococo aedicule that stands around the Tomb today.

   2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 384

2. countableA piece of ornamentation in this style.

   Above the two chief figures are rococos on either side of the clock face. These, like all the other work, are in bold relief and wrought with great delicacy and grace. On the top of the clock is a realistic scene from nature.

   1896, The American Stationer, volume 40, page 793

   1 more example

   The marzipan and that kind of malleable ceramic, the rococo decorations, the flowers made of hard sugar, the frosted blue surfaces, kind of gray, the pearls, the legal coloring... all of it supposedly suitable for human consumption.

   2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 41

comparative more rococo · superlative most rococo

1. Of or relating to the rococo style.
2. Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent.
3. Old-fashioned.