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Baroque Pronunciation
Baroque is pronounced ber-OHK, IPA /bɝˈoʊk/.
ber-OHK
US /bɝˈoʊk/ · UK /bəˈrəʊk/
Syllables: ber · OHK (2 syllables, stress on syllable 2)
adjective and noun: Belonging to the highly ornate European style in art and music of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
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Baroque in a Sentence
- The chapel ceiling is baroque at its most crowded.
- She plays baroque violin with gut strings.
- His explanation was baroque and nobody followed it.
Common Mispronunciations of Baroque
Not BA-rohk
OHK takes the punch and the opening reduces almost to nothing. A loud front makes the word sound like barrack.
Not buh-ROHK-way
The que at the end is a bare k and stops there, as it does in antique and oblique. French spelling left the letters behind without the sounds.
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