What is embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence called?
florid — Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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