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plateresque, a.|plætəˈrɛsk| [ad. Sp. plateresco, f. platero a silversmith, goldsmith (f. plata silver) + -esco: see -esque.] Resembling silver work: applied to a rich grotesque style of decoration, etc.
1842–76Gwilt Archit. §599 Diego de Rianno..in that year [1530] designed and executed..the plateresque or renaissance sacristia mayor. 1882Harper's Mag. LXV. 219 The expensively adorned plateresque Chapel. 1886Sat. Rev. 24 Apr. 585/1 ‘Vegetable forms’ are..the chief characteristic of the superb Spanish plâteresque embroideries, in silver and gold thread, of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |