It is unnecessary to refer in detail to the many buildings in Europe in what is known as the rococo style, of which grotesque and meaningless ornamentation is the chief characteristic, but it must be added that in the early 19th century something like a new classic revival took place on the Continent.
"Architecture"
Nancy R E Meugens Bell
In the great dancing periods of the rococo time the mastery of the exact rules appeared one of the most difficult parts of higher education, and as a real test of the truly cultivated gentleman and gentlewoman; scholarly books analysed every detail of the necessary forms, and the society dances in the castles of the eighteenth century were more elaborate than the best prepared ballets on the stage of to-day.
"Psychology and Social Sanity"
Hugo Münsterberg
In Germany, where they dance for dancing's sake, the quadrille was long ago voted rococo and stiff.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood