Both Uses of
florid
in
Hard Times
- The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- So the day came, as all other days come to people who will only stick to reason; and when it came, there were married in the church of the florid wooden legs — that popular order of architecture — Josiah Bounderby Esquire of Coketown, to Louisa eldest daughter of Thomas Gradgrind Esquire of Stone Lodge, M.P. for that borough.†
Chpt 1.16
Definition:
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(florid as in: a florid style) elaborate (with much decorative detail)