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

Roget 851: vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism^†; mauvis gout [Fr.], bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding etc. (discourtesy) 895.    courseness etc. adj.^†; indecorum, misbehavior.    lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton [Fr.], rusticity; boorishness etc. adj.; brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism^†; ribaldry; slang etc. (neology) 563.    bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].    [Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant^†; baroque, rococo.    rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub^†; clown etc. (commonalty) 876; Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu etc. 876; frump, dowdy; slattern etc. 653.    ... show more

Dutch: rococo, rococostijl
Polish: rokoko

Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.

Roget 124: old, ancient, antique; of long standing, time-honored, venerable; elder, eldest; firstborn.    prime; primitive, primeval, primigenous^†; paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic^†, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate^†; aboriginal etc. (beginning) 66; diluvian^†, antediluvian; protohistoric^†; prehistoric; antebellum, colonial, precolumbian; patriarchal, preadamite^†; paleocrystic^†; fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial^†, antemundane^†; archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter.    immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary; inveterate, rooted.    antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned, behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out; senile etc. 128; time worn; crumbling etc. (deteriorated) 659; secondhand.    old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam^†, old as history.    [geological eras (list, starting at given number of years bp)] Archeozoic [5,000,000,000], Proterozoic [1,500,000,000], Paleozoic [600,000,000], Mesozoic [220,000,000], Cenozoic [70,000,000]. [geological periods] Precambrian, Cambrian [600,000,000], Ordovician [500,000,000], Silurian [440,000,000], Devonian [400,000,000], Mississippian [350,000,000], Pennsylvanian [300,000,000], Permian [270,000,000], Triassic [220,000,000], Jurassic [180,000,000], Cretaceous [135,000,000], Tertiary [70,000,000], Paleogene [70,000,000], Neocene [25,0000,000], Quaternary [1,000,000]. [geological epochs (list, starting at 70,000,000 years bp)] Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent.    ... show more

Roget 851: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.    coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming^†, unpresentable^†; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.    dowdy; slovenly etc. (dirty) 653; ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi [Gr.], etc. (plebeian) 876; uncourtly^†; uncivil etc. (discourteous) 895; ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt.    untutored, unschooled (ignorant) 491.    unkempt.    uncombed, untamed, unlicked^†, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite^†; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, unclassical^†, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish; uncultivated; Bohemian.    obsolete etc. (antiquated) 124; unfashionable; newfangled etc. (unfamiliar) 83; odd etc. (ridiculous) 853.    particular; affected etc. 855; meretricious; extravagant, monstrous, horrid; shocking etc. (painful) 830.    gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo; bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread; obtrusive.    ... show more

Polish: rokokowy