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aureate::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | flamboyant, florid |
Examples of aureate
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Douglas's literary work was composed in a highly polished Middle Scots, often aureate in style.
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In 1987, a $1 coin struck in aureate-plated nickel was introduced.
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The five guilder coin is produced from aureate steel.
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This was also the period when use of Scots in poetry was at its most richly and successfully aureate.
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We are apt to associate it with the prolix statements of policy makers and the aureate pomposity of evangelists.
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Some of Chaucer's aureate words like laureate, mediation, and oriental eventually became a part of everyday English.
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Aureate-steel 5 guilder coins followed in 1998.
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The one guilder coin is produced from aureate steel.
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Ever since the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb, the aura of the sinister that supposedly did for Lord Carnarvon has been counterpointed by a distinctly aureate glamour.
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- Elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"
- Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
- Aureation ("to make golden", from aureus) is a device in arts of rhetoric that involves the "gilding" (or supposed heightening) of diction in one language by the introduction of terms from another, typically a classical language considered to be more prestigious. ...
- Golden in color or shine; characterized by inflated or pompous language
- 1. golden; guilded 2. splendid (see next entry)
