Sentence:  Gerhart von Graevenitz (1994) also problematizes the current <WSD>supermetaphor</WSD> status of the term arabesque; before the “globalization of its catchment area,” he notes, the arabesque was a poetic paradigm of the Romantic period in literature. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A metaphor that is particularly widespread or dominant.