ornateness
- a word derived from ornate.
Example Sentences
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It was about simplicity, in contrast to the excessive ornateness of the Victorian interior—but also about a sort of a pride in America, the American past.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2021
Two long aisles are chock-full of 125-pound cash registers, which have varying degrees of ornateness.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2019
“It was very ornate,” says Burrows, “and we took the ornateness out.”
From Architectural Digest • Apr. 1, 2010
Mr. Rossi and Mr. Glass shared one piano keyboard for “The Chase,” which had the ornateness of ragtime and old silent-movie accompaniment.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2010
Baxter is the most colloquial, the most fanciful, and the latest, of the three grouped together; the other two are nearer to the plainness of Chillingworth than to the ornateness of Jeremy Taylor.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
