ornate
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“I was there, and I was a pop star — my thing was wearing ornate halos all the time,” you might say.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
The ornate astronomical clock that sits on the ancient Old Town Hall was finished in the 15th.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
“It was a very ornate button and that seems small to someone but not to the owner,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
Inside the ornate former presidential palace, photographs and oral testimony detail the grinding poverty and ingrained corruption of the dictatorship of Cuba's then-military strongman, Fulgencio Batista.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on August 6 in the ornate President’s Room of the Capitol as Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and other civil rights leaders looked on.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
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