adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Pertaining to an ornate style of architecture of 16th-century Spain suggestive of silver plate.
2. 2
   Alternative form of plateresque. alt-of, alternative

Etymology

From Spanish plateresco (“in the manner of a silversmith”), from platero (“silversmith”), from plata (“silver”).

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