baronnette (baronet)

[F., dim. of baronne, fem. of baron, baron.] A little barone ; a baron's daughter: sometimes used for the wife of a baronet. N. E. D. baronryt (bar'on-ri), n.; pl. baronries (-riz). [ barony (bar'on-i), n.; pl. baronies (-iz). [ Whatever the regular troops spared was devoured by bands of marauders who overran almost every barony in the island. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xii. 5. Formerly, the tenure by which a baron held of his superior, namely, military or other honorable service.-6t. The body body of barons and other peers; the baronage.- Burgh of barony. See burgh . baroque (ba-rōk'), a. and n. [Also baroco; = G. Dan. bar ok, The Oncidium leucochilum is by no means the most eccentric or baroque member of the family of orchids. Encyc. Brit ., XIII. 589. IMG:content-1689.png:[blocks in formation] le scrolls and inorganic shell-work. Also called, some times, the Jesuit style, from the many and remarkably ugly examples supplied by churches founded by the Jesuit order. This word is often used interchangeably with rococo; but rococo is preferably reserved for ornament of the same period, particularly in France, which, though overcharged and inorganic, still retains some beauty and artistic quality; baroque implies the presence of ugly and repellent qualities. Sometimes written baroco , barocco , barock . Baroque pearl, a rough pearl of irregular or contorted form. Such pearls are frequently utilized to form bodies of birds or the like, the extremities being made of gold, etc. II. n. 1. An object of irregular and peculiar form, especially in ornamental art. On the scroll handle is a pearl baroque of Neptune riding on a dolphin. S. K. Loan Exhibition , 1861. 2. Ornament, design, etc., of the style and period called baroque. See I., 2. The mad extravagances of the baroque , a style, if style it can be called, which declared war against the straight line, erased logic in construction from its grammar of art, and overloaded buildings with meretricious ornament. C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, p. 364.