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Meanings of ornate in anglès

Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details.

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Usage of ornate in anglès
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The ornate Diamond Jubilee State Coach would give Cinderella some serious competition.
News.com.au
2
Not especially ornate; but an absence that will be noticed in Russia.
The Guardian
3
Atop a sand-etched stone slab, an ornate canopic jar held Chani's water.
The Winds of Dune
4
Notices in French and Flemish were suspended from the ornate onyx pilasters.
The Pretty Lady
5
A main room was furnished with rococo wood tables and ornate tabernacles.
Rock and Ice Magazine
6
It contains ninety ornate maps, and Yale's copy includes original hand color.
The new yorker
7
She stared absently at the ornate and weary decorations of the room.
The Butterfly House
8
The two reclining figures on the smaller domes are reposeful and ornate.
The Art of the Exposition / Personal Impressions of the Architec...
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The room expressed the ornate impotent gorgeousness of a useless leisure class.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
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The setting of the story was too ornate, and seemed almost barbarous.
Barbara in Brittany
11
Opposite the town-hall is the smaller but extremely ornate Maison du Roi.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bréquigny, Louis George...
12
The lama, both hands raised, intoned a final blessing in ornate Chinese.
Kim
13
The tattoo was not quite as ornate as some, but very precise.
The Land of Painted Caves
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The china was Bavarian, the glasses crystal, the silverware heavy and ornate.
A river in the sky
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A long ornate sword glimmered in the space between Dominic and Arnaud.
Forbidden Blood
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In each room, an ornate plaster medallion surrounded the ceiling light fixture.
Frankenstein: Lost Souls - A Novel
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Ireland
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United States of America
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