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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: literature, media, publishing
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Synonyms: cultism
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.
