All 10 Uses
ornate
in
The Bourne Ultimatum
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- Bourne suddenly walked over to an ornate brass-topped coffee table, the sort so common in the bazaars of India and the Middle East.†
*ornate = having lots of decorative detail
- "Cactus!" he roared, racing out of the ornate living room into the hallway.†
- He walked casually past the ornate front desk, and once outside on Montalembert ran to the nearest telephone kiosk.†
- Again the slow, cumbersome elevator; the faded ornate lobby now half filled with Parisians talking manically, many heading for the bar and their prenoon apéritifs; and again the hot bright summer street outside and the maddening congested traffic.†
- The three of them walked up the curving ornate staircase, Conklin limping, and down a lushly carpeted "We walked up to go down?" asked Conklin.†
- The ride down to the lobby was both interminable and insufferable, the latter because of an American As she crossed the marble floor toward the large glass doors of the ornate filigreed entrance, she suddenly, involuntarily stopped as an elderly man in a dark pin-striped suit gasped, his slender body lurching forward in a heavy leather chair below on her right.†
- They walked through the ornate, richly decorated nineteenth-century lobby to a typical brass-grilled French elevator; they entered and proceeded to the third floor.†
- The Hotel Metropole is a renovated, prerevolutionary structure built in the ornate style of architecture favored by the czar who had visited fin-de-siècle Vienna and Paris.†
- However, to the right of the gargantuan ornate living-room fireplace was an item that stood out like a decorator's nightmare: a The second contradiction to the decor, and undoubtedly an affront to the memory of the elegant Romanovs, was a heavyset man in a rumpled uniform, open at the neck and stained with vestiges of recent meals.†
- He raised the Graz Burya automatic, aiming at one of the ornate hallway chandeliers, and fired twice, simultaneously shouting furiously as the earsplitting explosions accompanied the shattered glass that plummeted from the ceiling.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(ornate) highly decorative or elaborate in style — whether in appearance (with lots of detail) or in language that sounds flowery and overly complicated
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)