Translation for "rococco" to spanish
Rococco
adjective
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Translation examples
adjective
He was sitting on one side of his worktable, an oval of mermaid-green onyx bound in rococco bronze.
Estaba sentado sobre el borde de su mesa de trabajo, un mueble ovalado de ónice verde con un marco de bronce estilo rococó.
The bathing room, for example—the salle de bain, it was called—had been fitted with a rosy marble floor and Italian tiled walls, and a gilded rococco settee where the bather rested after the exertions of washing.
El baño, por ejemplo —o la salle de bain, como lo llamaban los franceses—, estaba decorado con suelos de mármol rosado, sus paredes se adornaban con un alicatado italiano y disponía de un canapé dorado de estilo rococó donde el cliente podía descansar tras el enorme esfuerzo que suponía bañarse.
One could not tell, from their rococco stylings, that appeared brand new, if these pieces of furniture, that had once possessed a character all of their own, before being disguised with these unexpected ornamentations, presented a more cheerful or, as they had begun to say in the early years of the 19th Century, ‘more comfortable’ appearance: but it is permissible to assert that, for modern visitors, there can be nothing more dreary than all these leafy designs, these palms and laurels, crumbling into dust...all these wreaths plastered around the rose windows and on the walls of the keep...everything appears so dull, ridiculous and withered, like the rags of the drapery which seem to have been left out in the rain all day in the aftermath of a carnival.
No podríamos decir si en su rococó completamente nuevo aquellos aposentos, que antes, cuando no habían sido disfrazados de una manera sorprendente, habían tenido su carácter, presentaban un aspecto sonriente y, como había de empezar a decirse en el primer tercio del siglo XIX, confortable: pero desde luego puede afirmarse que para los visitantes de nuestros días no hay nada más lamentable que aquellos adornitos tan recubiertos de polvo, que aquellas complicadas filigranas pegadas a muros de fortaleza.
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