Both Uses of
florid
in
The Great Gatsby
- I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.
p. 48..9 *florid = having a reddish complexion
- I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby's bedroom, a gray, florid man with a hard, empty face — the pioneer debauchee, who during one phase of American life brought back to the Eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.
p. 100..7
Definition:
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(florid as in: florid color) a reddish color -- (especially about someone's complexion or in various medical contexts)