(art, music) A period in western architecture, art and music from ca. 1600 to ca. 1760 CE, known for its abundance of drama, rich color, and extensive ornamentation.

The chess variant invented in 1962 by mathematician Robert Abbott, or any of its descendants, where pieces move alike, but have differing methods of capture.

(art, music) From or characteristic of the Baroque period.

An ornate, detailed style.

Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.

Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.

Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.

Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.

Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.

(figurative) Overly and needlessly complicated.