What is "ornately"

Usage examples of "ornately".

After studying it for a moment, Asey closed the book and thoughtfully surveyed the rather ornately tooled backstrip, and the stamped date - 1892.

He looked up at the ornately carved ceiling painted with a fresco depicting the deva of storms, Indra.

There were servants in the room too, young men and women in tunics and tabards of gorgeous watered silks, or in fantastic uniforms of red leather kilts, golden cuirasses inlaid with intricate designs of black mother-of-pearl and plumed helmets that almost doubled their height, armed with ornately decorated gisarmes, pole-axes and sarissas which they held grounded before them.

Four were commonplace vessels for transporting passengers and cargo, the fifth a sleek galley equipped with a small ballista in the bow as well as other features useful to river pirates, and the sixth a gilded and ornately carved pleasure barge, aboard which Kesk sometimes chose to pursue his less unsavory amusements.

At its far end they came to another closed door, ornately carved, with recessed panels and a great latch of bronze, the stop cast to resemble a hound and the fall-bar a bone clenched in its jaws.

The salwar was a star-tling peacock-green, and embroidered so ornately with gold and silver threads and glittering beads that it made my eyes hurt.

Instead, Castillo had a drink and watched the BBC television news until an at- tractive British Airways passenger service representative came and collected him and an ornately costumed, tall, jet-black couple he thought were probably from Nigeria for no good reason except they were smiling and having a good time.

Its high ceiling was plaster with pendant bosses and the chimneypiece was an elaborate two-tier dome, ornately carved.

That lasted only moments, then was replaced by Perrin sitting over winecups in a common room or tavern with a man and a woman who wore identical red coats ornately trimmed with blue and yellow.

Next to the rack stood a huge, ornately carved etagere, its glass shelves cluttered with silver bowls, cups, and trophies, as well as a number of gold-plated cricket balls.

I would watch the pretty girls, dressed in colorful Italian suede and wearing ornately carved Ladakhi jewelry, strolling down the streets in the evenings, stopping to chat with T-shirted boys, and I would wonder if I would ever grow up to be as elegant and poised as they.

Amid a chorus of affirmatives, Klyd vaulted onto the table and kneeled before the seated figure, offering a strip of ornately embroidered cloth draped over his hands.

The Conies Britan-norum sat at the top of this round table, his chair larger and more ornately carved than the backless ones in which we of lesser rank were seated.

Deep, ornately woven Mallorean carpets covered the floor and soft green velvet drapes covered the tall, narrow windows.

Breathing deeply to replenish his energies, Blakely took up his stance behind John, hands resting lightly on the back of the ornately carved chair.