rococo

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

rococo
    adj 1: having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an
           exquisite gilded rococo mirror"
    n 1: fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and
         architecture that originated in France in the 18th century

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Rococo \Ro*co"co\, n. [F.; of uncertain etymology.]
   A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in
   the latter part of the eighteenth century.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Rococo \Ro*co"co\, a.
   Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo;
   florid; fantastic.
   [1913 Webster]

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

rococo
 adj.

   Terminally {baroque}. Used to imply that a program has become so
   encrusted with the software equivalent of gold leaf and curlicues that
   they have completely swamped the underlying design. Called after the
   later and more extreme forms of Baroque architecture and decoration
   prevalent during the mid-1700s in Europe. Alan Perlis said: "Every
   program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." Compare {critical
   mass}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

rococo

   <jargon, abuse> {Baroque} in the extreme.  Used to imply that
   a program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent
   of gold leaf and curlicues that they have completely swamped
   the underlying design.  Called after the later and more
   extreme forms of Baroque architecture and decoration prevalent
   during the mid-1700s in Europe.  Alan Perlis said: "Every
   program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble."

   Compare {critical mass}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1996-04-06)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

80 Moby Thesaurus words for "rococo":
      Gothic, arabesque, archaic, baroque, baroqueness, bizarre,
      brain-born, busy, bygone, chichi, chinoiserie, dated, deformed,
      dream-built, elaborate, elaborateness, elegance, elegant,
      extravagant, fanciful, fanciness, fancy, fancy-born, fancy-built,
      fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, fine, fineness, flamboyance,
      flamboyant, florid, floridity, floridness, floweriness, flowery,
      freak, freakish, frilly, fussy, grotesque, high-wrought, labored,
      luxuriance, luxuriant, luxurious, luxuriousness, maggoty,
      malformed, misbegotten, misshapen, moldy, monstrous, moresque,
      moth-eaten, notional, old hat, ornate, ostentation, ostentatious,
      outdated, outlandish, overelaborate, overelaborateness,
      overelegance, overelegant, overlabored, overornamentation,
      overworked, overwrought, passe, picturesque, preposterous,
      pretty-pretty, rich, richness, teratogenic, teratoid, whimsical,
      wild

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