arabesque

[US]/ˌærə'besk/
[UK]/ˌærə'bɛsk/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.Arabesque decoration;Arabesque ballet pose.
Word Forms
Present Participlearabesquing
Pluralarabesques

Example Sentences

When we went one Sunday we found the floor being tiled, in a pretty blue and yellow arabesque pattern that made us exclaim.The tiler was a big light-eyed mulatto man.

The dancer performed a beautiful arabesque on stage.

The intricate arabesque patterns adorned the walls of the mosque.

She incorporated arabesque motifs into her interior design.

The music was accompanied by graceful arabesque movements.

The artist used arabesque elements in his painting.

The arabesque design on the carpet added elegance to the room.

The architecture of the building featured intricate arabesque details.

She wore a necklace with an arabesque pendant.

The book cover was adorned with arabesque embellishments.

The arabesque style is known for its intricate and geometric patterns.

Real-world Examples

The secretary absently drew an arabesque on the blotting-pad.

Source: Humans and Ghosts (Part 1)

A luminous ceiling, decorated with delicate arabesques, distributed a soft, clear daylight over all the wonders gathered in this museum.

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

She thrilled her audiences with amazing leaps and arabesques.

Source: who was series

They scrubbed him so much that the arabesques of his tattooing began to fade.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

It was a rather curious one of Moorish workmanship, made of dull silver inlaid with arabesques of burnished steel, and studded with coarse turquoises.

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Still farther a rose colonnade led to a thing like an altar, hedged in at both sides, yet not so completely but that the sun lay in an arabesque along the steps of the altar.

Source: Goodbye, My Love (Part 1)

Wade had said, the first evening, as the two young men, with Wade's mother sat in the sultry dusk, with the Virginian creeper drawing, between the verandah arches, its black arabesques against a moon-lined sky.

Source: Humans and Ghosts (Part 1)

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