chinoiserie

• Chinoiserie

Borrowed from French chinoiserie (“Chinese-esque”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːnwɑːzəˈɹiː/

chinoiserie (countable and uncountable, plural chinoiseries)

1. (art) A style in art, or an artistic object, that reflects the influence of Chinese art.
   • 1878, Henry James, chapter VI, in The Europeans‎, Macmillan and Co.:

     The Baroness perceived that her entertainer had analyzed material comfort to a sufficiently fine point. And then he possessed the most delightful chinoiseries—trophies of his sojourn in the Celestial Empire: pagodas of ebony and cabinets of ivory; sculptured monsters, grinning and leering on chimney-pieces, in front of beautifully figured hand-screens; […]

• orientalism

From chinois (“Chinese”) +‎ -erie (“having the quality of”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.nwaz.ʁi/

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chinoiserie f (plural chinoiseries)

1. (art) chinoiserie
2. (derogatory) knick-knack
3. (in the plural) complications

• → English: chinoiserie
• → German: Chinoiserie

• “chinoiserie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.