Both Uses
ornate
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
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- I'm thinking of those mothers today in their ornate dresses and their vacant lives.†
Chpt 27 *ornate = having lots of decorative detail
- Below me London spreads out like a lady's fan, ornate and delicate.†
Chpt 38
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)