florid

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  1. adjective Flushed with rosy color; ruddy.
  2. adjective Very ornate; flowery: a florid prose style.
  3. adjective Archaic Healthy.
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  • Old Lamb sat there looking stuffed and florid, and no wonder. —  Eternity Ring - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 13: 1948
  • She was getting on for fifty now, but she was still an appetising creature—plump, florid, and with a flow of vivid, spicy language. —  Maigret and the Lazy Burglar—Georges Simenon 85
  • His complexion was florid, his features fine and regular, his nose quite aquiline, and his teeth splendidly white; though scarcely fifty years of age, his hair was remarkably grey. —  The Life of George Borrow
  • His face is friendly, florid, and tense with the excitement of the day. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
  • His complexion was florid, the skin rather pock-marked, his hair the color of blue steel, for the black was already changing to grey. —  Beethoven
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swarthy ·  flamboyant ·  rosy ·  middle-aged ·  comely ·  eloquent ·  handsome ·  stately ·  lively ·  rococo ·  jovial ·  pompous
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French floride, from Latin flōridus, from flōs, flōr-, flower; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese Italian florido, from Latin floridus, abounding with flowers, flowery, blooming, from flos (flor-), flower: see flower.
 

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/ˈflɑrɪd/
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