Baroque means in the ornate European style of the seventeenth century. Baroque music.
It is used loosely of anything elaborate and overdone, which is a criticism rather than a period. The word originally named a pearl of irregular shape.
1adjectivebaroqueIn the ornate European style of the seventeenth century.
“The baroque ceiling took four years and two painters.”
baroque is a style.
French baroque comes from Portuguese barroco, an irregular pearl.
Portuguese
barroco — irregular pearl
French
baroque
English, today
baroque
Via French baroque (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape), from Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verrūca (“wart”). It has been suggested that the term derives from Baroco, a technical term from scholastic logic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA