NOUN (1)

1. fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation;
- Example: "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"

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]

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]

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.


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   outdated, outlandish, overelaborate, overelaborateness,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