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n. - Extravagant elaborateness.

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Usage examples (23)
  • Adjective : a florid complexion. ,florid writing
  • Some of his coinages “realpolitiking consiglieri” taken in isolation may be considered aptly descriptive turns of phrase and felicitous creations , but the cumulative effect is...
  • The other had a great deal of health and floridness in her countenance, which she had helped with an artificial white and red; and she endeavoured to appear more...
  • This is pretty good alliteration, but fancy phrasing does not a good burrito make, and to be honest, the only real basis on which to judge a burrito is the quality of the...
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