ornate
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Today, visitors enter via the ornate Nativity façade, on the church’s eastern side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Women in lace mantillas and gold jewelry pass on their way to somewhere ornate.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
The company, he said, will open a "cultural, artistic, fashion, art, retail food experience" in Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the ornate 19th century shopping arcade where the first Prada boutique opened in 1913.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Cast-stone columns with ornate capitals bisect the thresholds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The Hague gallery is furnished like the home of someone from the new wealthy middle class: with upholstered wooden furniture, fancy, well made, and ornate.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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