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rococo

/ɹəˈkoʊˌkoʊ/

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ruh-KOH-koh: put the strongest beat on the middle o.

Both written c letters sound like k. The last o is also a full “oh” vowel, but it is less prominent than the middle syllable.

3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2

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The room was decorated with elaborate rococo furniture.

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

What does rococo mean?

noun

  1. A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
  2. A piece of ornamentation in this style.

adjective

  1. Of or relating to the rococo style.
More meanings (2)

adjective

  1. Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent.
  2. Old-fashioned.

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IPA pronunciation

/ɹəˈkoʊˌkoʊ/

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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The moral position of the malefactor is so delicate and difficult that we shall attempt to treat of it in the severe, though rococo, manner of Aristotle’s “Ethics.”
Andrew LangThe LibraryProject Gutenberg ebook #2018
This latter feature of the apartment was of white marble, and in the familiar rococo style of the last century; but above it was a paneling of an earlier date, quaintly carved, painted white, and gilded here and there.
Henry JamesThe AmericanProject Gutenberg ebook #177
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The officer’s comrades perceived that there was, in that “badly kept” garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,—who is not unknown to the reader, and whose name was Théodule Gillenormand,—passed by.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
The most lovely moving picture actor, considered in the light of genuine aesthetic values, is no more than a piece of vulgarity; his like is to be found, not in the Uffizi gallery or among the harmonies of Brahms, but among the plush sofas, rococo clocks and hand-painted oil-paintings of a third-rate auction room.
H. L. (Henry Louis) MenckenIn Defense of WomenProject Gutenberg ebook #1270
Under the magic of the men who led in this reaction, cathedrals and churches, which in the previous century had been regarded by men of culture as mere barbaric masses of stone and mortar, to be masked without by classic colonnades and within by rococo work in stucco and papier mache, became even more beloved than in the thirteenth century.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505