Both Uses of
florid
in
Main Street
- The only habitable structures to be seen were the florid red-brick Catholic church and rectory at the end of Main Street.†
Chpt 3 *
- She asserted, "This silly lobby is too florid," and simultaneously she admired it: the onyx columns with gilt capitals, the crown-embroidered velvet curtains at the restaurant door, the silk-roped alcove where pretty girls perpetually waited for mysterious men, the two-pound boxes of candy and the variety of magazines at the news-stand.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(florid as in: a florid style) elaborate (with much decorative detail)