ornate

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An attendant kept track of each seller's position in the queue, and helped to deposit ornate pendants, hammered rings and commemorative coins into an opening in the device.

From Barron's

OSLO—The director of the Nobel Peace Prize works behind an ornate wooden desk next to a wall adorned with the black-and-white portraits of his seven predecessors.

From The Wall Street Journal

From its center the palace rose in deep yellow stone, crenellated and ornate, to the sky.

From Literature

I step back to study the hotel’s ornate and weathered facade.

From Literature

Bars and rings trade at a premium to the world price at gold and jewellery shops across the country, where bullion emblazoned with dragons is sold alongside ornate goldware inlaid with pearls and rubies.

From Barron's