(FLOOR-id), adjective
Excessively ornate and showy, as prose.
“All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a FLORID style in imitation of this.” – Henry David Thoreau, American author and transcendentalist
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| Back | (FLOOR-id), adjective Excessively ornate and showy, as prose. “All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a FLORID style in imitation of this.” – Henry David Thoreau, American author and transcendentalist |
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