All 4 Uses
ornate
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Dreaming in Cuban
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- But his handwriting, an ornate script he learned in another century, revealed his decay.†
Chpt 1.1 *ornate = having lots of decorative detail
- He studies the ornate balconies like a burglar, gazes through the blue panes of stained glass until he spots her with the Spaniard, naked and sharing a cigarette.†
Chpt 1.3
- Felicia went with Hugo Villaverde to the Hotel Inglaterra, an ornate wedding cake of an edifice opposite the Parque Central.†
Chpt 1.6
- Out went the ornate bric-a-brac, the austere furniture carved with the family crest.†
Chpt 2.9
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)