All 3 Uses
ornate
in
The Princess Bride
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- Each step was perhaps a foot in width, so he was six feet from Fezzik, six feet from the large, ornate green-handled door that opened onto the final level.†
p. 304.4 *ornate = having lots of decorative detail
- He took another step down toward the final, ornate green-handled door.†
p. 304.7
- Prince Humperdinck's recluse lived behind the ornate green handle on the bottom door.†
p. 305.6
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)