florid

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The hall is decorated with florid banners, carvings, and artwork.

One Sunday night, lost in fruity metaphors and florid diction, Judge Taylor's attention was wrenched from the page by an irritating scratching noise.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

The language of the book had grown florid and overblown again--it was not self-parody yet, not quite, but it was floating steadily in that direction and he seemed helpless to stop it.  (source) Stephen King, Misery, 1987

...and he saluted them with that florid, swaggering gesture to the hat...  (source) William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!, 1936

He cherished language and its skillful use, and his own style was one of sustained floridity.  (source) Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, 1980

They are floridly willing to stand in a circle around him all night, with their zap guns drawn.†  (source) Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969

In the hot summer light his floridness seemed heavy and bloated, and but for his erect square-shouldered walk he would have looked like an over-fed and over-dressed old man.†  (source) Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, 1920

Miss Bartlett burst into florid gratitude.  (source) E. M. Forster, A Room With A View, 1908

Then I scoff at the floridity and absurdity of some scrolloping tomb; and the trumpets and the victories and the coats of arms and the certainty, so sonorously repeated, of resurrection, of eternal life.†  (source) Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931

She was of course supposed to compliment me more floridly—"gigantic,"†  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

How the floridness of the materials of cities shrivels before a man's or woman's look!†  (source) Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855

Even on Sunday, when it veiled its more florid charms and lay comparatively empty of passage, the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest; and with its freshly painted shutters, well-polished brasses, and general cleanliness and gaiety of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye of the passenger.  (source) Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886

His father was a jeweller, a man with a dark, gentle floridity of manner and complexion.†  (source) Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, 1929

His complexion was florid and his hair white.†  (source) Maugham, W. Somerset, Moon and Sixpence

In all probability the murderer had a florid face, and the finger-nails of his right hand were remarkably long.†  (source) Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, A Study In Scarlet

Blistering extending down the leg, which resolved leaving florid post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation.†

His face was florid and smudged with dirt.  (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

Outside this building a florid-faced officer formed us into a double column and marched us across a broad parade ground.  (source) Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 1971

My Miss Kirwin, who was a tall, florid, buxom lady with battleship-gray hair, taught civics and current events.  (source) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

I glanced again at his florid face, saw he looked decent and climbed into the leather seat beside him.  (source) John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me, 1961

Jack Roussin, the priest, a beefy man with a florid complexion, would declaim on poverty and injustice, voices in the congregation calling out amens.  (source) Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains, 2003

A small fruit wagon with an array of bright peaches and pears stood near the curb, and the vendor, a florid man with bulbous nose and bright black Italian eyes, looked at me knowingly...  (source) Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952

A thin, dark man with a florid face...  (source) Hal Borland, When the Legends Die, 1963

Those florid good looks would not last him very long.  (source) Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, 1938

He looked at the round florid face and wagged his head.  (source) Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940

I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925