Both Uses of
ornate
in
The Glass Castle
- We carried the tree home and decorated it with Grandma's antique ornaments: ornate colored balls, fragile glass partridges, and lights with long tubes of bubbling water.
p. 114.3ornate = having lots of decorative detail
- When we finished, our bunk beds looked sort of plain, so we spray-painted the sides with ornate red and black curlicues.
p. 152.8 *ornate = decorative detail of
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)