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aureate

adjective as in flowery

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The language here — which Walsh writes with aureate poeticism, full of vivid imagery and pointed symbolism — is what gives the show its melancholic beauty.

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Bearing a golden seal, in aureate legalistic language, the documents claimed that an obscure 18th-century treaty gave the sender rights to claim her new house as his own.

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But the poet may have been right after all; whatever small measure of aureate glimmer and substance here is, ultimately, fleeting.

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A dusted copper heaven streaked with gold and siphoned from Klimt’s aureate imagination.

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This came as something of a surprise to those whose sole experience of festivals has been knee-deep in mud, swaying arhythmically while those around either pogo or chuck pints of aureate liquid about the place.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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