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What does florid mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy.
  2. Elaborately ornate; flowery.
  3. (of a disorder, especially mental) In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state.
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All the same, busy foyer ceramics and florid room furnishings suggest a resort ripe for refurbishment.
On the mantelpiece is a small hard-backed book full of poems about motherly love, illustrated with florid pictures of angelic families.
His tone and legato playing are ravishing, and his execution of the composer's florid runs and other figurations is smooth.
It is an unhappy book, and consequently I could not afford to submit to the temptation of the florid and extraneous.
On the plus side was the intriguingly ornate solo piano part, with florid additions, one may speculate, to compensate for the thinner strings.
Unsteady figures cannoned into us, apologizing at once with a fine florid courtesy and sweeping exaggerated bows as we moved towards the Grill.

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