Both Uses
ornate
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The Great Fire
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- The city boasted having 59,500 buildings, many of them — such as the Courthouse and the Tribune Building — large and ornately decorated.†
p. 18.5 *ornately = with much decorative detail
- The familiar landscape of ornate building:: and elegant shops had been changed into one of charred black rubble and little else.†
p. 90.9ornate = having lots of decorative detail
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)