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baroque (iou)

baroque adjective & noun. Orig. derog. Also Baroque. M18.
[French (in earliest use, of pearls) from Portuguese barroco, Spanish barrueco, (of architecture) Italian BAROCCO: ult. origin unkn.]
A. adjective.
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by an exuberant and ornate style prevalent in the arts (esp. in architecture and Music) of the 17th and early 18th cents. Of a musical instrument etc.: belonging to or designed as in that period. M18.
W. D. Howells The building..coldly classic or frantically baroque. W. S. Maugham The sonorous periods and the baroque massiveness of Jacobean language. H. Read Michelangelo has been called the father of Baroque Art, and the style can be actually traced to him. Encyclopedia Britannica The Baroque era reached its zenith in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach..and George Frideric Handel.
gen. Elaborately or grotesquely ornate; whimsical, bizarre. M19.
S. Spender The baroque extravagance, the ribbons and trimmings, of Tony's conversation.
Of a pearl: irregularly shaped. L19.
b. noun. (The style, Music, or architecture of) the 17th and early 18th cents.; baroque ornamentation. L19.
J. N. Summerson At Blenheim the English Baroque culminates.

chop(7) (iou)

chop verb1. Infl. -pp-. Pa. t. & pple -pped, (arch.) -pt. LME.
[Var. of CHAP verb2.]
verb trans. Cut by one or more quick heavy blows, usu. with an axe or the like. Freq. with adverb or adverbial phr. LME.
chopping-block a block for chopping wood etc. on; fig. something sustaining continual blows. chopping-board: for preparing Vegetables etc. on.
Bible (AV): Micah 3:3 They breake their bones, and chop them in pieces. E. Crispin I'll chop off your feet with these shears.
b. Strike (a ball, a person, etc.) with a short heavy (esp. edgewise) blow. L19.
J. Clavell Mura had chopped his [another's] elbow with the side of his hand.
verb trans. Cut (up) into pieces, mince. LME.
E. M. Forster Euphemia..will not..chop the suet sufficiently small.
verb intrans. Strike a short heavy (esp. edgewise) blow at (occas. on), orig. in order to cut; cut through with such a blow. LME.
J. T. Story Felix..started chopping at the chain with an axe.
b. In cricket, tennis, etc.: hit the ball with a short heavy (esp. edgewise) stroke. L19.
verb trans. & intrans. Thrust, go, or come, (in, into) with sudden impetus or violence; drop, fall, etc., suddenly. Long obsolete exc. dial. LME.
Shakespeare Richard III Chop him in the malmsey-butt in the next room. Sir W. Scott Lest some passing stranger should chop in between me and the prize.
verb trans. & intrans. Strike, knock. Chiefly Scot. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
verb intrans. Break open in clefts or fissures; crack; chap. L16-M18.
verb intrans. Of the sea, waves, etc.: have a short jerky motion; break in short abrupt waves. Chiefly as chopping ppl adjective. M17.
R. H. Dana A stiff breeze..directly against the course of the current, made an ugly, chopping sea.

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