aureate
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Adjective (2)
- elaborately or excessively ornamented“flamboyant handwriting”“the senator's florid speech”Synonyms: floridflamboyantOpposite plainSimilar fancy
- having the deep slightly brownish color of gold“long aureate (or golden) hair”“a gold carpet”Synonyms: gildedgiltgoldgoldenOpposite achromaticSimilar chromatic
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Au′re·ate (…), adjective
Origin: L. aureatus, fr. aureus golden, fr. aurum gold.
Golden; gilded. John Skelton
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54