All 3 Uses
ornate
in
Interview with the Vampire
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- From me she had learned the value of money, but from Lestat she had inherited a passion for spending it; and she wasn't to leave without the most luxurious black coach we could manage, outfitted with leather seats that might have accommodated a band of travelers, let alone a man and a child who used the magnificent compartment only for the transportation of an ornately carved oak chest.†
Part 2ornately = with much decorative detail
- I found myself at home there, again forsaking dreams of ethereal simplicity for what another's gentle insistence had given me, because the air was sweet like the air of our courtyard in the Rue Royale, and all was alive with a shocking profusion of gas light that rendered even the ornate lofty ceilings devoid of shadows.†
Part 3ornate = having lots of decorative detail
- I could see an old house beyond the trees, dark, the paint peeling, the ornate iron railings of its long upper and lower galleries caked with orange rust.†
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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)