English Explanatory Dictionary

plateresque

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Pertaining to an ornate style of architecture of 16th-century Spain suggestive of silver plate.
adj
  1. Alternative form of plateresque.

Word forms

plateresque more plateresque most plateresque

Etymology

From Spanish plateresco (“in the manner of a silversmith”), from platero (“silversmith”), from plata (“silver”).

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