All 12 Uses
ornate
in
A Game of Thrones
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- Two servants went ahead to light their way, carrying ornate oil lanterns with panes of pale blue glass, while a dozen strong men hoisted the poles to their shoulders.†
p. 34.4ornate = having lots of decorative detail
- An ornate shield had been embroidered on the prince's padded surcoat.†
p. 73.2 *
- Catelyn spied the queen's ornate barge, tied up beside a fat-bellied whaler from the Port of Ibben, its hull black with tar, while upriver a dozen lean golden warships rested in their cribs, sails furled and cruel iron rains lapping at the water.†
p. 168.7
- Beside the door swung an ornate oil lamp on a heavy chain, with a globe of leaded red glass.†
p. 197.1
- Jaime Lannister was back on his feet, but his ornate lion helmet had been twisted around and dented in his fall, and now he could not get it off.†
p. 313.2
- Ned unfastened the heavy clasp that clutched at the folds of his cloak, the ornate silver hand that was his badge of office.†
p. 355.1
- She reached out with her other hand and grabbed the first thing she touched, the belt she'd hoped to give him, a heavy chain of ornate bronze medallions.†
p. 394.3
- The medallions were pure gold, massive and ornate, each one as large as a man's hand.†
p. 499.9
- Janos Slynt met them at the door to the throne room, armored in ornate black-and-gold plate, with a high-crested helm under one arm.†
p. 526.8
- Behind one stall an armorer displayed steel breastplates worked with gold and silver in ornate patterns, and helms hammered in the shapes of fanciful beasts.†
p. 587.5
- Some of it was ornate, some plain; not a bit of it matched, or fit as it should.†
p. 683.2
- His armor was heavy steel plate, enameled in a dark crimson, greaves and gauntlets inlaid with ornate gold scrollwork.†
p. 685.1
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)