Crossword clues for chinoiserie
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chinoiserie \Chi`noi`se*rie"\ (sh[=e]`nw[.a]`z'*r[=e]"), n. [F.]
Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.
a style in art reflecting Chinese influence, being elaborately decorated and intricately patterned.
Wiktionary
n. (context arts English) A style in art, or an artistic object, that reflects the influence of Chinese art
WordNet
n. a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned
Wikipedia
Chinoiserie (pronounced , derived from the French word Chinois, meaning "Chinese") is the European interpretation and imitation of Chinese and East Asian artistic traditions, especially in the decorative arts, garden design, architecture, literature, theater, and musical performances. First appearing in the 17th century, this trend was popularized in the 18th century due to the rise in trade with China and East Asia. As a style, chinoiserie is related to the Rococo style. Both styles are characterized by exuberant decoration, asymmetry, a focus on materials, and stylized nature and subject matter that focuses on leisure and pleasure, while chinoiserie focuses on subjects that were thought to be "Chinese."
Usage examples of "chinoiserie".
Venireman Five, head of the department on Chinoiserie, but Ole felt sick herself.
She wandered about the room, studying the portraits and landscapes upon the walls, touching the veneered tables, the elegant chairs, the elaborately draped Chinoiserie chintz curtains.
Opposite to Cass was a French clock--a piece of make-believe chinoiserie, seeing that the Chinese had no clocks.
If you had rather have the chinoiserie, or the lattice, I should be happy with your choice.
Gwaltney sighed as he walked up to a large brick cube of a house, distinguished from the other houses that lined the street both by its enormous size and by the unusual chinoiserie fence that surrounded it, and knocked authoritatively on the door.
One day he was taken with the new Gothic, the next he felt more restrained and thought that perhaps chinoiserie was preferable.
Quickly, she searched the desk with her magnifying glass and flashlight, looking for nicks or chips that might have marred the chinoiserie veneer.
It was because of the workmen belowstairs, talking and making noise as they hung the new chinoiserie wallpaper, she attempted to convince herself.
He bore her suffocating embrace for ten seconds and then demanded in a voice one used with a spoiled child that she release him at once or be responsible for the ruin of a perfectly good Brussels lace cravat and his favorite silk Chinoiserie waistcoat.
Ben led us through a big, yellow living room with a limestone fireplace, brocade couches, chinoiserie tables, Imari porcelain lamps with parchment shades.
The bed was covered with a quilted satin spread and the phone rested on a chinoiserie nightstand.
Switching from embroidery to chinoiserie to painting on glass, and oh, when I have a moment or two, I might take a peek at the stars.
He was depicted by the satirical cartoonist Cruikshank as sitting on a fat cushion amidst the splendid chinoiserie of one of his many saloons, holding court while fawning courtiers, all in kimonos, bowed to him.
He paused in front of the chinoiserie desk and watched her stow her purse in a lower drawer.
Its buildings are of two kinds: in the first the builders have disregarded the character of the local stone and permitted themselves an orgy of campaniles, baroque staircases, Norman arches, Moorish peepholes and bits of grisly Scottish chinoiserie and bondieuserie, if such terms may be allowed.