/plat'euh resk"/ , adj. ( sometimes cap. )
noting or pertaining to a 16th-century style of Spanish architecture characterized by profuse applications of delicate low-relief Renaissance ornament to isolated parts of building exteriors.
[ 1835-45; plateresco, equiv. to plater ( o ) silversmith ( plat ( a ) silver; see PLATINA + -ero -arius -ARY) + -esco -ESQUE; so called because the heavy ornamentation of the style suggested decorated silverwork ]