floridness
Example Sentences
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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
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
The inside of the church is in singular contrast to the floridness of the outside.
From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson
The old, worn, faded, carefully polished furniture, for the most part of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, seemed abashed in the presence of his floridness.
From The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson
