[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rococo \roco"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

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rococo \roco"co\, a.
   of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo;
   florid; fantastic.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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

[4] : 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   outdated, outlandish, overelaborate, overelaborateness,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

[5] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

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.


see also:
baroque critical mass 

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

rococo
     
         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
     
     
see also:
baroque critical mass jargon file 

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