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Six example sentences with florid, each labelled with its topic.
Every surface carries scrollwork, gilding and cherubs, a florid style that the next generation of architects stripped away entirely.
Architecture
His florid prose piles three adjectives on every noun, and readers who loved it in 1890 find it exhausting now.
Literature
The aria's florid ornamentation adds forty extra notes to a line that could be sung plainly in eight.
Music
The doctor noted the patient's florid complexion, a deep flush across both cheeks that hinted at high blood pressure.
Medicine
After the hill sprints his face turned florid, so red that the coach made him sit in the shade.
Fitness
The florid gilt frame, crowded with carved vines and shells, nearly overwhelms the small quiet landscape inside it.
Art
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