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ornate
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- At the back are two grandiose entranceways with carvings around them and ornate insets above the doors, inscribed in curvy, solemn lettering: GIRLS and BOYS.†
p. 51.3 *ornate = having lots of decorative detail
- In the steamer trunk in the cellar, along with a cut-velvet evening gown from the twenties and a pair of riding jodhpurs, there were several things made of real silver: ornate salt and pepper shakers, sugar tongs in the shape of chickens' feet, rose bowls lavish with silver flowers.†
p. 166.6
- I preferred Catholic churches to Protestant ones, the more ornate the better, because there was more to look at.†
p. 217.7
- My mother's wedding dress is in there, several pieces of ornate silver, some sepia-toned portraits of people I don't know, a packet of bridge tallies with silk tassels on them, left over from before the war.†
p. 224.1
- Doric columns are the strongest and simplest, Corinthian ones are the lightest and most ornate, adorned with rows of acanthus leaves giving rise to graceful volutes and helices.†
p. 299.9
- Behind my half-head, in the center of the picture, in the empty sky, a pier glass is hanging, convex and encircled by an ornate frame.†
p. 446.6
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)