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or⋅nate

  [awr-neyt]
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–adjective
1. elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
2. embellished with rhetoric; florid or high-flown: an ornate style of writing.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < L ornātus well-equipped, adorned, orig. ptp. of ornāre to equip; see -ate 1

Related forms:
or⋅nate⋅ly, adverb
or⋅nate⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. showy, ostentatious; rich, lavish.
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or·nate   (ôr-nāt')   
adj.  

  1. Elaborately, heavily, and often excessively ornamented.

  2. Flashy, showy, or florid in style or manner; flowery.


[Middle English, from Latin ōrnātus, past participle of ōrnāre, to embellish; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]
or·nate'ly adv., or·nate'ness n.
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Word Origin & History

ornate 
1420, from L. ornatus "adorned," pp. of ornare "adorn, fit out," from stem of ordo "order" (see order). Earliest ref. is to literary style.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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