Definition of Rocailles

1. rocaille [n] - See also: rocaille

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rocailles

robuster
robustest
robustified
robustifies
robustify
robustifying
robustious
robustiously
robustiousness
robustly
robustness
robustnesses
roc
roc curve
rocaille
rocailles (current term)
rocambole
rocamboles
rocambolesque
roccella
roccellas
roccellic
roccellic acid
roccellin
roch
rochambeau
roche alum
roche moutonnee
roche moutonnée
rochelle

Literary usage of Rocailles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1847)
"The little town of Roche, the villages of St Laurent and Cornier, are built upon the rocailles, while those of Pers, St Romaine, and Nangy, are placed on ..."

2. How to Collect Continental China by C. H. Wylde (1907)
"Perhaps the richest decoration of all consisted of a ground of bleu-de-roi, heightened with rocailles in gold, and with compartments reserved in white and ..."

3. How to Collect Continental China by C. H. Wylde (1907)
"Perhaps the richest decoration of all consisted of a ground of bleu-de-roi, heightened with rocailles in gold, and with compartments reserved in white and ..."

4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1847)
"We at last come to the conviction that the rocailles are a great calcareous moraine, issuing from the valley of ..."

5. History of the Ceramic Art: A Descriptive and Philosophical Study of the by Albert Jacquemart (1873)
"The stand for the fish, cut out and ornamented with rocailles in ... has in the centre a group of fruits, foliage, and rocailles of the finest execution. ..."

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