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Ornate vs Fustian - What's the difference?

ornate | fustian |

As an adjective ornate

is elaborately ornamented, often to excess.

As a verb ornate

is to adorn; to honour.

As a noun fustian is

a kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff.

ornate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
  • *
  • *:The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth?;. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
  • Flashy, flowery or showy
  • Finely finished, as a style of composition.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:a graceful and ornate rhetoric

    • Related terms

    * ornament

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    Verb

    (ornat)
  • (obsolete) To adorn; to honour.
    • They may ornate and sanctify the name of God. — Latimer.

    Anagrams

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    fustian

    English

    (wikipedia fustian)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff.
  • *
  • A class of cloth including corduroy and velveteen.
  • Pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech.
  • * Addison
    • Claudius has run his description into the most wretched fustian .
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    • Usage notes

    * Used in the sense of "pompous" since at least the time of . For this shift of meaning, compare bombast.

    See also

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