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The Palace of Horticulture as an illustration of French Renaissance architecture fascinated this observer, in spite of its overelaborateness.

From The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth by Barry, John D. (John Daniel)

The Fairfields had assumed that the overelaborateness was due to the festive occasion, but Patty now perceived that the same formality of service was observed with only the two girls at the table.

From Patty's Butterfly Days by Wells, Carolyn