floriated
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of floriated
Example Sentences
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The minute hand of its floriated and gilded clock, one of the largest in France, which since 1900 had declared the time to generations of anxious travelers, now moved in sedate jerks toward apotheosis.
From Time Magazine Archive
The popular concept that the roof is the very essence of architecture became so deeply ingrained that Louis Sullivan, Chicago's famed skyscraper builder, felt it necessary to crown his tall buildings with huge, floriated lids.
From Time Magazine Archive
The birds were singing, the trees were budding, and the floriated rhetoric of Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, 71, was in full bloom.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were some time acquiring a stove and when they did find what they wanted, a silver-scrolled monster with floriated warming ovens and a front like a nickel-plated tulip garden, they had trouble getting it.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Over this back and over all that prostrate agony the enormous floriated bronze rings that carried the lights of the concert-hall hung from the ceiling in frightful, festive decoration.
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair
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