rococo

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A style of art, especially architecture and decorative art, that originated in France in the early 1700s and is marked by elaborate ornamentation, as with a profusion of scrolls, foliage, and animal forms.
• noun A very ornate style of speech or writing.
• noun Music A style of composition arising in the 1700s in France, often viewed as an extension of the baroque, and characterized by a high degree of ornamentation and lightness of expression.
• adjective Of or relating to the rococo.
• adjective Immoderately elaborate or complicated.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A variety of ornament originating in the Louis-Quatorze style and continuing with constantly increasing inorganic exaggeration and extravagance throughout the artistic degeneracy of the Louis-Quinze.
• noun Especially— A kind of China-ribbon embroidery.
• noun A kind of Roman work.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.
• noun A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
• adjective Of, or relating to the rococo style.
• adjective Over-elaborate or complicated.
• adjective Old-fashioned.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
• adjective having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation