Definition of rococo

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ro·co·co    (r-kk, rk-k) KEY 

NOUN:
also Rococo

1. 1. A style of art, especially architecture and decorative art, that originated in France in the early 18th century and is marked by elaborate ornamentation, as with a profusion of scrolls, foliage, and animal forms.
   2. A very ornate style of speech or writing.
2. Music A style of composition arising in 18th-century France, often viewed as an extension of the baroque, and characterized by a high degree of ornamentation and lightness of expression.

ADJECTIVE:

1. also Rococo Of or relating to the rococo.
2. Immoderately elaborate or complicated.

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ETYMOLOGY:
French, probably alteration of rocaille, rockwork, from roc, rock, variant of roche, from Vulgar Latin *rocca