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1
elaborately and often excessively decorated
- a florid, gilded mirror that took up most of the wall
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- bedaubed,
- flashy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glitzy,
- loud,
- ostentatious,
- pretentious,
- showy,
- swank
- (or swanky),
- tawdry
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2
full of fine words and fancy expressions
- gave a florid speech in honor of the queen's visit
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- aureate,
- flowery,
- grandiloquent,
- high-flown,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin
- (also hifalutin),
- magnific,
- ornate,
- purple,
- rhetorical
- (also rhetoric)
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3
having a healthy reddish skin tone
- a man with a florid complexion
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The first known use of florid was in 1651
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