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Notes on BAROQUE
[common] Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive.
Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the
connotations of ELEPHANTINE or MONSTROSITY but is less extreme
and not pejorative in itself. "Metafont even has features to
introduce random variations to its letterform output. Now that is
baroque!" See also ROCOCO.
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Last Updated: 19th May 2007