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plateresque
[ plat-uh-resk ]
adjective
- noting or pertaining to a 16th-century style of Spanish architecture characterized by profuse applications of delicate low-relief Renaissance ornament to isolated parts of building exteriors.
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
This organ, its loft, and the pulpit against it are all very elaborate examples of Plateresque Renaissance work.
That to the right has a fine artesonado ceiling, and that to the left is decorated in a species of Moorish plateresque style.
The style of the lower stalls of Toledo cathedral is good Plateresque.
The clasps are also Plateresque, and prove, together with the border, that the triptych was restored about this time.
The sixteenth-century bordering to the panels is in the manner known as Plateresque.
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