baroque is from the italian word barocco which means
Baroque The word baroque was a Portuguese term for a pearl (barocco) with an irregular shape. Cognates for the term in other Romance languages include: barroco in Portuguese, barrueco in Spanish, and barocco in Italian.[2] It was used in French to describe pearls in a 1531 inventory of Charles V's treasures.[3]
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Economic nationalism While the coining of the term "