Aureate

Aureate
 

 
(OR-ee-ut)
 

 
Adjective:
 

 
-Of a golden color or brilliance.
 

 
-Marked by grandiloquent and rhetorical style.
 

 

 
From Middle English aureat, from Medieval Latin aureatus - decorated with gold, from Latin aureus meaning, simply, gold.
 

 

 
Used in a sentence:
 
“Her hair was every bit as aureate as her diction.”
 

 
or
 
Aureate diction frequently conceals the tritest sentiments.”

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