floridness
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Ornament -- N. ornament; floridness c†. adj.. turgidity, turgescence†; altiloquence &c. adj.†; declamation, teratology†; well-rounded periods; elegance &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
It was well that Mrs. Dangerfield kept Captain Baster waiting; it gave the purple tinge, which was heightening his floridness somewhat painfully, time to fade.
From The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson
Davies and Risk, when called to supper, smelled strongly of rose-scented cold-cream; and Lund was unsparing in sarcastic remarks on the extreme floridness of complexion of the entire party.
From Adrift in the Ice-Fields by Charles W. Hall
Frau Lichtenfeld shone in a gown of emerald green, fitting so closely as to enhance her natural floridness.
From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Sibert Cather
Yet, after a time, this dullness frequently gives way to a fiery redness; not the floridness of health, but the redness of inflammation and false excitement, which indicates a corresponding depreciation of the mental faculties.
From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by L. N. Fowler
