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rococo
adjective
ornate or florid in speech, literary style, etc.
More about rococo
If any word looks Italian or Spanish, rococo certainly does. But in fact rococo is a French word meaning 鈥渙ut of style, old-fashioned鈥� and is a humorous distortion of rocaille 鈥減ebble-work, shellwork,鈥� which was done to excess in some 18th-century art, furniture, and architecture. The French word may have been influenced by the Italian adjective barocco 鈥渂补谤辞辩耻别.鈥� Rococo entered English in the 19th century.
how is rococo used?
Should you contemplate purchasing a copy of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, a “mega-genius” according to Aaron (in private), he will tell you beforehand that Garc铆a M谩rquez “is so rococo and torporific you’ll need an insulin shot every twenty pages.”
… such versions respond to perfectly legitimate concerns about what is comprehensible to a child, who might well feel ‘squashed by the words and strangled by the sentence’ … when faced by some of Kingsley’s more rococo passages …
More about volute
Volute is a technical word, a noun used in architecture, ornamental decoration, and marine biology. It comes from French volute or from Latin 惫辞濒奴迟补 鈥渟肠谤辞濒濒.鈥� 痴辞濒奴迟补 is a noun use of 惫辞濒奴迟耻蝉, the past participle of volvere 鈥渢o turn.鈥� Volute entered English in the late 17th century.
how is volute used?
The interior of the tiny temple was dim, and wisps of incense smoke made graceful volutes in the air.
My, how light this Alonso de Avila was, forced to walk on mere earth only because of the richness and gravity of his damask and jaguar-skin suits, his gold chains, and his tawny mantle decorate with a reliquary–all of it lightened, let me assure you, by the feathers in his cap and the volutes of his mustache, the wings of his face.
dissemble
verb
to conceal one's true motives, thoughts, etc., by some pretense; speak or act hypocritically.
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Dissemble comes from late Middle English dissemile, dissimill, an alteration of the verb dissimule (from Old French dissimuler 鈥渢o keep one鈥檚 intentions hidden,鈥� from Latin 诲颈蝉蝉颈尘耻濒腻谤别, 鈥渢o disguise or conceal one鈥檚 thoughts鈥�), and associated in form with the noun semblance and the obsolete verb semble (from Old French sembler, from Latin 蝉颈尘颈濒腻谤别 and 蝉颈尘耻濒腻谤别 鈥渢o pretend鈥�). Dissemble entered English in the sense 鈥渢o pass over, ignore, neglect鈥� in the 16th century.
how is dissemble used?
He counted heavily on his ability to dissemble, knowing that every decent lawyer had at least several drops of dissimulation in his blood.
I didn’t know how to dissemble, I quite openly acknowledged the mistakes I made, and didn’t try hard to hide them.