Crossword-Solution: ROCAILLE
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| FRENCH rock work | 1 answer |
| ROCK work (Fr.) | 1 answer |
| decorative rock or shell work, esp as ornamentation in a rococo fountain, grotto, or interior | 1 answer |
| rock work | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with ROCAILLE (5)
This was in keeping with the delicate French _rocaille_ tradition on which Papillon was nurtured; to him any other contemporary style of book decoration was evidence of bad taste.
They fitted naturally into the developing _rocaille_ style (corrupted into Rococo outside of France), and it is not surprising that they were also produced extensively in Paris.
The introduction of the scallop-shell as an almost constant element of ornamentation gives already a foretaste of the _Rocaille-Coquille_, the so-called Chippendale fashions of the next reign.
Later on the decoration became of a freer type, with bouquets of artificial flowers, and in the eighteenth century the _Rocaille_ or Rococo element began to creep in, and the Rouen ware developed from the camaïen blue style of decoration to a polychrome style.
Chinese and naturalistic elements were grafted on, or mixed with, the former Louis Quatorze, with an addition of still life that did duty for architectural form in objects of pottery and metal work, and a combination of shell work; all these elements made up the style known under the different names of _rococo_, _rocaille_, _baroque_, or Louis Quinze.