the Portuguese word for an irregular pearl

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'The word abstract was confusing, [Barr] admitted, but no more than the ethnological tag Gothic to describe French thirteenth-century art, or the Portuguese word for an irregular pearl, Baroque, applied to European art of the seventeenth century.'

'Alice Goldfarb Marquis, from Alfred H. Barr Jr: Missionary for the Modern, 1989.

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