culteranismo

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What does culteranismo mean?

A literary style during the Baroque period of Spain, characterized by a very ornamental, ostentatious vocabulary and a message that is complicated by a sea of metaphors and complex syntactical order.

Where does culteranismo come from?

Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.

How to pronounce culteranismo

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