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What does plateresque mean?

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Adjective
  1. Pertaining to an ornate style of architecture of 16th-century Spain suggestive of silver plate.
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The two pulpits are covered with interesting iron bas-reliefs, and the High Altar encased in a mass of plateresque silver work.
The clasps are also plateresque, and prove, together with the border, that the triptych was restored about this time.
First we pass the beautiful plateresque gateway of the Hospital del Rey.
The palace of Aroztegi boasts a huge archway entrance and a richly decorated plateresque door.
The great west faade is highly enriched with plateresque ornament.
That to the right has a fine artesonado ceiling, and that to the left is decorated in a species of Moorish plateresque style.

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