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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

We want to take a little bit of the decorative ornateness we have on the second floor and bring it down to the lobby, but still be simple.

From New York Times • May 6, 2015

“It was very ornate,” says Burrows, “and we took the ornateness out.”

From Architectural Digest • Apr. 1, 2010

The Review never had any one who could emulate the ornateness of De Quincey or Wilson, the pure and perfect English of Southey, or the inimitable insolence, so polished and so intangible, of Lockhart.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George