Both Uses of
ornate
in
Not Without My Daughter
- For my birthday he gave me a delicate music box with an ornate sculpture of a mother cradling a baby in her arms.†
*ornate = having lots of decorative detail
- She and Fereshteh went off to a large ornate casket in an adjoining chamber.†
Definition:
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)
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)