ornate
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The paper had yellowed from age and the cursive was so ornate the words were hard to make out.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
A maximalist to the end, he likes things ornate.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
Trainers clad in ornate uniforms and traditional white fur headgear led golden-bedecked stallions round a stage arena at an annual horse beauty pageant in the ultra-closed Central Asian state of Turkmenistan.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
The displays, rich in photographic documentation, present decades of ornate equipment, along with vintage sewer-worker uniforms and the stories of a cast of what could be called hygiene innovators.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 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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