In a baroque manner; with the ornate, elaborate, or excessively decorated style characteristic of baroque art and architecture.
From baroque (from French, possibly from Portuguese barroco meaning irregular pearl) plus -ly, the adverb-forming suffix. Baroque originally described 17th-century art but now means any ornate style.
Baroque as an art period has become our default word for 'excessively ornate'—we use it way beyond art history now (baroque politics, baroque prose), showing how specialized terms drift into everyday metaphor.
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