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Being elaborately decorated
Answer for the clue "Being elaborately decorated ", 13 letters:
elaborateness
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being elaborate 2 (context countable English) Something elaborate
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: elaboration , intricacy , involution ] an ornate appearance; being elaborately decorated [syn: ornateness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See Labor .] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; ...
Usage examples of elaborateness.
The elaborateness of this piece of music led the original discoverers to place it much later than the date above given, but more careful examination of the manuscript justifies the conclusion that it was written some time before 1240.
So skilful was he in drawing and composition that no part of the story was avoided by reason of the elaborateness of the subject.
In the cathedral at Antwerp there is a representation of hell carved in wood, whose marvellous elaborateness astonishes, and whose painful expressiveness oppresses, every beholder.
Both the elaborateness and the Latinity have tended to diminish the popularity of the play considerably in later times.