Adjective

(en adjective)

Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.

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*: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

Adjective

(en adjective)

Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.

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Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse.

* Addison

The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarity of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.

* E. Everett

There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude.

Wordy or grandiloquent.