All 4 Uses
ornate
in
A Gesture Life
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- I was walking down the wide, ornately papered hallway.†
p. 110.1 *ornately = with much decorative detail
- Corporal Endo had no such physical problems, save his acne, and so I began to consider the possibility that his expressions were of a besieged mind, one perhaps innately tenuous and fragile and now—under duress—grown sickly and ornate.†
p. 158.7ornate = having lots of decorative detail
- I was considering what she had suggested about our pretending to be other people, like figures in a Western novel, imagining how we could somehow exist outside of this place and time and circumstance, share instead the minute and sordid problems of such folks, the vagaries and ornate dramas of imperfect love.†
p. 263.7
- For we wish it not to be ornate.†
p. 351.5
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)