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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.
Noun
culteranismo (uncountable)
- (literature) 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.
- Synonym: cultism
Spanish
Noun
culteranismo m (plural culteranismos)
- culteranismo
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