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Definition of Rocaille
1. n. Artificial rockwork made of rough stones and cement, as for gardens.
Definition of Rocaille
1. rococo [n -S] - See also: rococo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rocaille
Literary usage of Rocaille
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vasari on Technique: Being the Introduction to the Three Arts of Design by Giorgio Vasari (1907)
"Grottoes and Fountains of ' rocaille ' work. THE fountains which the ancients
made for their palaces, gardens, and other places, were of different kinds; ..."
2. How to Judge Architecture: A Popular Guide to the Appreciation of Buildings by Russell Sturgis (1903)
"The beginnings of the rocaille 1 are of this time; and the rocaille system of
design is as attractive in its best examples, in the delicate goldsmith's work ..."
3. How to Judge Architecture: A Popular Guide to the Appreciation of Buildings by Russell Sturgis (1903)
"The beginnings of the rocaille * are of this time ; and the rocaille system of
design is as attractive in its best examples, in the delicate goldsmith's ..."
4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"(See rocaille ; Rococo.) ROCOCO ARCHITECTURE The archi- and drawn by Vignola and
other authorities. The capitals of columns assume new forms ; wreaths and ..."
5. Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested ...by John Barrow by John Barrow (1735)
"We own this calcination to be tolerable as to the gold; but as for mixing the
calx with the rocaille, without melting them together to incorporate, ..."
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