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 Roget, Peter Mark

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 Jepson, Edgar

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 Cather, Willa Sibert

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 Jepson, Edgar

In the hot summer light his floridness seemed heavy and bloated, and but for his erect square-shouldered walk he would have looked like an over-fed and over-dressed old man.

From The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith