CHURRIGUERESQUE

Meaning of CHURRIGUERESQUE in English

adjective Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Spanish churrigueresco, from José Churriguera died 1725 Spanish architect Date: 1845 of or relating to a Spanish baroque architectural style characterized by elaborate surface decoration or its Latin-American adaptation

Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012

CHURRIGUERESQUE — Spanish Rococo architectural style named after the architect José Churriguera (1665–1725). Visually frenetic, it featured a plethora of extravagant ornament …
Английский словарь Британика
CHURRIGUERESQUE — |chu̇rēgə|resk adjective Etymology: Spanish churrigueresco, from José Churriguera died 1723 Spanish architect + Spanish -esco -esque 1. : relating or …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CHURRIGUERESQUE — /choor'ee geuh resk"/ , adj. noting or pertaining to the baroque architecture of Spain and its colonies in the late …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CHURRIGUERESQUE — adj. of or pertaining to the baroque architecture; characterized by elaborate ornamentation
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
CHURRIGUERESQUE — adjective Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Spanish churrigueresco, from José Churriguera died 1725 Spanish architect Date: 1845 : of or relating …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CHURRIGUERESQUE — [ ˌtʃʊərɪgə'rɛsk ] ■ adjective Architecture relating to the lavishly ornamented late Spanish baroque style. Origin C19: from the name …
Concise Oxford English vocab
CHURRIGUERESQUE — [chur.ri.gue.resque] adj, often cap [Sp churrigueresco, fr. Jose Churriguera d. 1725 Span. architect] (1845): of or relating to a Spanish …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CHURRIGUERESQUE — Spanish Churrigueresco, Spanish Rococo style in architecture, historically a late Baroque return to the aesthetics of the earlier Plateresque (q.v.) …
Britannica English vocabulary
CHURRIGUERESQUE — adj. Spanish Rococo architectural style named after the architect José Churriguera (16651725). Visually frenetic, it featured a plethora of extravagant …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
CHURRIGUERESQUE — adj. Pronunciation: ˌ chu ̇ r-i-g ə - ' resk Function: adjective Usage: often cap Etymology: Spanish churrigueresco, from José …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
LATIN AMERICAN ARTS — Visual, performing, and literary arts that developed in Mesoamerica, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean after contact with the …
Английский словарь Британика
BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE — Architectural style originating in late 16th-century Italy and lasting in some regions, notably Germany and colonial South America, until the …
Английский словарь Британика
SALOMNICA — ( (Spanish: Solomon-like), ) also called Barley-sugar Column, in architecture, a twisted column (q.v.), so called because in the Old …
Britannica English vocabulary
PEDIMENT — in architecture, triangular gable crowning a portice (area, with a roof supported by columns, leading to the entrance of a …
Britannica English vocabulary
RODRGUEZ, LORENZO — born c. 1704, , Guadix, Spain died 1774, Mexico City, New Spain [now in Mexico] Spanish-born architect who became the …
Britannica English vocabulary
CHURRIGUERA FAMILY — a Spanish architectural family prominent during the last years of the 17th century and the first quarter of the 18th. …
Britannica English vocabulary
CARMONA — town, Seville province, in the autonomous community (region) of Andalusia, southern Spain; it overlooks the Andalusian Plain from its site …
Britannica English vocabulary
BAROQUE PERIOD — era in the history of the Western arts roughly coinciding with the 17th century. Its earliest manifestations, which occurred in …
Britannica English vocabulary
LATIN AMERICAN ARTS — Visual, performing, and literary arts that developed in Mesoamerica, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean after contact with the …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE — Architectural style originating in late 16th-century Italy and lasting in some regions, notably Germany and colonial South America, until the …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
ARCHITECTURE — n. 25B6; noun modern architecture : BUILDING DESIGN, building style, planning, building, construction; formal architectonics. See lists. the architecture of …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary

Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster

← CHURR CHURRO→