How to Use rococo in a Sentence

rococo

1 of 2 noun

• At the end of the episode, Axe attends a dinner with Andolov's family in one hell of a gold rococo room.
  — refinery29.com, 28 May 2018
• This is surmounted by a rococo-style bow with trailing ribbons that terminate at the base with a flower garland.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 13 May 2022
• For me, the feel is 21st-century rococo – opulence with a fresh modern twist.
  — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• The actual room is this crazy mix of rococo and even Chinese architecture.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 Nov. 2022
• But in the throes of the health crisis, the bell-ringing ceremonies that mark the completion of an offering have gone from rococo to ridiculous.
  — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• The front shows the figures of Moses and Aaron, while the back displays biblical scenes and imagery surrounded by a rococo arch.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
• As his house pares down, ornament sprouts on his person like an irrepressible efflorescence of his inner rococo.
  — Kennedy Fraser, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
• The church’s interior is a breathtaking rococo riot, with a ceiling that looks like a collection of upside-down wedding cakes.
  — Diane Daniel, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
• London Lace Scotland is the source for this company's lovely lace window coverings, which range in style from sweet to over-the-top rococo.
  — John Loecke, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• Wistful and no-nonsense, an unmoussed Smart was speaking from her Los Angeles home, perched atop a satiny pink chair with a rococo design.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2021
• At the Moschino runway show in June, Rowan took an edgier approach to milkmaid dressing, wearing a two-piece rococo-print fit with platform heels.
  — Teen Vogue, 16 Aug. 2019
• Kassewitz revisits rococo, an 18th-century French style, with one eye on the waters lapping at Miami, her hometown.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
• Breaking with earlier ideals of simplicity and grandeur, the rococo was exuberant, playful and highly ornamental.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2021
• After Teruzzi was made plenipotentiary to the Italian colony in Cyrenaica, the two splashed out on sumptuous receptions and a splendid rococo residence.
  — Caroline Moorehead, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• More elaborate dishes, which have recently infiltrated the fashion world’s parties and installations in the form of rococo seafood towers and avant-garde cakes, are finally popping up on runways, too.
  — Marian Bull, ELLE, 18 Nov. 2022
• Inspired by the lavish extravagances of les fetes gallants, this handmade clip from Alexandre de Paris is a rococo dream for anyone looking to channel the style of Marie Antoinette.
  — Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• The suite, impeccably designed by Beatty, is a French rococo painting come to life, while the period-perfect costumes by Jane Greenwood are a visual treat for the eyes.
  — Maria Ward, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2022
• Both smack of rococo excess and impracticality, literally cloying in their brown sugary extravagance.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2020
• Its emphasis on heroism as haute couture completes the diffusion of Action Comics’ inner ‘animal energies’ into comic-book rococo.
  — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
• Oddly, for such a modernizer, Michele’s taste tends toward the baroque, or even the rococo—the man has seemingly never encountered a frill or furbelow that displeased him—and his collections are littered with vintage references.
  — Maya Singer, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2022
• Hers is the perpetual response of the rococo to the neoclassical, of Fragonard to David, of leaping frivolity to restraining solemnity, of the soap bubble to the boulder.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• With its rococo details of life in a New York doorman-building overlaying careful and meticulous construction, the Hulu whodunit comedy is as strong as ever in its second outing.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 27 June 2022
• The more rococo version of this theory is that the virus was deliberately manufactured at the WIV and either escaped inadvertently or was purposely let loose.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2021
• What looks like a fancy rococo wallpaper design in black and white and in gold is actually an arrangement of handcuffs, chains, surveillance cameras, Twitter birds and stylized alpacas—an animal which in China has become a meme against censorship.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 12 July 2017
• There, an after party ensued, with men in 18th-century rococo suits ushering attendees into the Temple of Dendur, where a projection gave the bare walls the appearance of a grand European palace façade.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 6 June 2018
• Similar to Buckingham Palace, the interiors feature a variety of Baroque, rococo, and 19th-century finishes—all distinguished by the famous neoclassical-style columns, geometric features, and uniform patterns.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 9 Nov. 2022

rococo

2 of 2 adjective

• The chairs are carved in a rococo style.
• And their look flits from rococo one day to bohemian the next.
  — Leigh-Ann Jackson, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• What inspired the rococo meringues over the doors and niches?
  — Lisa Cregan, House Beautiful, 19 Jan. 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Still, the increasingly rococo costumes are a delight, especially for Rubinstein.
  — Jesse Oxfeld, Town & Country, 7 Apr. 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
• 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
• What made Garner so captivating for sophisticated European ears was his swing and rococo chord configurations.
  — WSJ, 14 Aug. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Hanging in its original Rococo frame in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, a painting captures a placid display of wealth in 18th-century Amsterdam.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2017
• So many of the ideas, attitudes, aesthetics that Ed Meadham and Ben Kirchhoff explored are turning up on other designers’ runways--rococo hyper-femininity, genderfluidity, face prints, colorful furs, graffiti’d biker jackets, and more.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2017