All 7 Uses of
ornate
in
Harry Potter (#7) and the Deathly Hallows
- The drawing room was full of silent people, sitting at a long and ornate table.†
Chpt 1 *
- It was rather frightening, this vast sculpture of a witch and a wizard sitting on ornately carved thrones, looking down at the Ministry workers toppling out of fireplaces below them.†
Chpt 12
- An ornate letter S, inlaid with many small green stones, glinted dully in the diffused light shining through the tent's canvas roof.†
Chpt 14
- Slowly the edge of an ornate picture frame came into sight.†
Chpt 15
- As Bathilda fumbled with logs for the fire, he muttered "Tergeo": The dust vanished from the photographs, and he saw at once that half a dozen were missing from the largest and most ornate frames.†
Chpt 17
- They both looked at the ornate silver sword, its rubied hilt glinting a little in the light from Hermione's wand.†
Chpt 19
- Two figures rose from chairs in front of an ornate marble fireplace as the prisoners were forced into the room by the Snatchers.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(ornate) of a thing: having lots of decorative detail
of speech: more complicated than necessary because of unusual words and phrases (fans might call it flowery or finely finished, but most would call it too complicated or showy)