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| armoire |
a large, usu. ornate wardrobe or cabinet. |
| aureate |
splendid, brilliant, or ornate, sometimes affectedly, as an overly artificial literary style. [1/2 definitions] |
| baroque |
a thing that is extravagantly decorated or ornate. [1/5 definitions] |
| busy |
excessively decorated; ornate. [1/5 definitions] |
| caparison |
ornate and sumptuous dress. [1/4 definitions] |
| chaste |
simple or refined in style; not ornate. [1/3 definitions] |
| euphuism |
an affected, artificial, ornate style of writing or speaking, characterized by elaborate alliteration, far-fetched figures of speech, and the like. |
| flowery |
having highly ornate or colorful figures of speech. [1/3 definitions] |
| gingerbread |
excessively ornate decoration, as on a building or furniture. [2/3 definitions] |
| glitzy |
gaudily sophisticated; pretentiously ornate. [1/2 definitions] |
| Gothic |
(l.c.) a type of printing or calligraphy characterized by its heavy, ornate style. [1/7 definitions] |
| grandiloquent |
speaking or expressed in a pretentious, pompous, or excessively ornate fashion. |
| luxuriant |
excessively showy or ornate; florid. [1/3 definitions] |
| pavilion |
a large ornate tent. [1/4 definitions] |
| purple |
full of ornate or elaborate language or literary effects. [1/5 definitions] |
| rococo |
ornate or florid. [1/4 definitions] |
| staff1 |
an ornate rod symbolizing the authority of office. [1/9 definitions] |
| Talavera |
a type of Mexican pottery introduced from Talavera de la Reina, Spain in the sixteenth century, distinguished by its ornate decoration with richly colored glazes. |
| turgid |
overwrought in language or style; too solemn or too ornate; inflated; bombastic. [1/2 definitions] |
| Victorian |
denoting or concerning the massive, ornate architecture and decoration of that period in English-speaking countries. [1/4 definitions] |
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