baroque vs metis

baroque

adj
  • Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail. 

  • Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts. 

  • Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque. 

  • Overly and needlessly complicated. 

  • Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity. 

  • Characteristic of Western art music of about the same period. 

noun
  • An ornate, detailed style. 

metis

adj
  • Of mixed heritage 

  • Of Métis heritage. 

noun
  • A person of mixed-race ancestry. 

  • A person of one-eighth black ancestry; an octoroon. 

  • Practical intelligence; street smarts. 

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