aureate
Americanadjective
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golden or gilded.
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brilliant; splendid.
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characterized by an ornate style of writing or speaking.
adjective
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covered with gold; gilded
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of a golden colour
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(of a style of writing or speaking) excessively elaborate or ornate; florid
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Etymology
Origin of aureate
1400–50; late Middle English aureat < Late Latin aureātus decorated with gold, equivalent to Latin aure ( us ) golden, of gold ( aur ( um ) gold + -eus adj. suffix) + -ātus -ate 1
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The language here — which Walsh writes with aureate poeticism, full of vivid imagery and pointed symbolism — is what gives the show its melancholic beauty.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
But the poet may have been right after all; whatever small measure of aureate glimmer and substance here is, ultimately, fleeting.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2019
A dusted copper heaven streaked with gold and siphoned from Klimt’s aureate imagination.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2017
This came as something of a surprise to those whose sole experience of festivals has been knee-deep in mud, swaying arhythmically while those around either pogo or chuck pints of aureate liquid about the place.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2012
And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn’d As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edward FitzGerald
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