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of a thing: having lots of decorative detailof 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)
- The hotel is decorated with ornate furniture, lots of carved designs, and gold leaf gilding.
ornate = having lots of decorative detail
- I don't care for her ornate style of speech.
- It was the most ornate church I've ever seen.
- It was a magnificent mirror, as high as the ceiling, with an ornate gold frame, standing on two clawed feet.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- When we finished, our bunk beds looked sort of plain, so we spray-painted the sides with ornate red and black curlicues.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- We carried the tree home and decorated it with Grandma's antique ornaments: ornate colored balls, fragile glass partridges, and lights with long tubes of bubbling water.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- "Oh, it's an ornate scallop, Pecten ornatus," Kya said.Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing
- Her yellow pagne is double-wrapped and her ornate bodice cut low on her large bosom.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- Huge Corinthian columns soared above me, capped with ornate heroic carvings.James Patterson -- 1st to Die
- I visited the Resurrection Cemetery, passing through the large, ornate gates, and parked.Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
- An ornate style of architecture developed in the fourth and fifth centuries, marked especially by its use of gold and color.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- On a slightly raised platform, Maxon, Kriss, and I sat at an ornate table.Kiera Cass -- The One
- A young woman soon enters with a tray of ornately sliced fruit and a bucket of ice.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- Much of Plauen was never rebuilt; parking lots and empty lots occupied land where ornate buildings had once stood.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
- Alec and Jane, holding hands, led the way down yet another wide, ornate hall—would there ever be an end?Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
- As an American with limited experience outside the United States, I was dazzled by the age of the buildings and marveled at their ornate architecture.Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
- Pollux weeps against the mantel of an ornate fireplace.Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
- I'm thinking of those mothers today in their ornate dresses and their vacant lives.Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- They were ornate, barely legible, and always the same.Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart
- Barbara crafted an ornate, lacy valentine for me to pin on my bulletin board inviting the class for the holiday weekend.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
ornate = more complicated than necessary because of unusual words and phrases
ornate = having lots of decorative detail
ornate = having lots of decorative detail
ornate = having lots of decorative detail
ornate = having lots of decorative detail
ornate = having lots of decorative detail
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