Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a gorgeous manner; with showy magnificence; splendidly.
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- adverb In a
gorgeous manner
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- adverb in an impressively beautiful manner
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Examples
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Instead, I opted for a bracing walk in gorgeously wintry sunshine besides Port Meadow.
Archive 2007-01-01 Stephen Tall 2007
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The introduction, discussion questions, suggested reading list, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group's discussion of the unforgettable Above the Thunder, an astonishing debut novel which explores the subtle, treacherous line between living and dying and captures in gorgeously rendered language the unexpected entanglements of the heart that can transform a life forever.
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For an action film, that’s terrific, but for a film that’s decked out in gorgeously gothic sets and costumes with lush cinematography by Shelly Johnson, it feels like we’re missing out at times.
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Something to look at: Plastic Fantasic flickr set pictures little plastic animals in gorgeously lit tableaus (via Bibi’s Box).
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It was exactly the right kind of gorgeously overproduced fetish object demanded by the burgeoning DVD zeitgeist.
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A Canadian visitor to Charleston in 1845 was amazed at the attire of slaves: Such exquisite dandies, such gorgeously dressed women, I never saw before—howling swells, all of them!
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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The 30-06 was a 1903 gorgeously blued, touched-up action in a magnificent rosewood or cherry stock or something similar, one of the most beautiful hand-checkered stocks, and one of the most beautiful rifles in general, I ever saw.
Petzal: .270 vs. 2009
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The 30-06 was a 1903 gorgeously blued, touched-up action in a magnificent rosewood or cherry stock or something similar, one of the most beautiful hand-checkered stocks, and one of the most beautiful rifles in general, I ever saw.
Petzal: .270 vs. 2009
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Hazmat Modine pulls it off gorgeously, deserving of whatever buzz Cicada receives.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Buzzing Cicadas and Jewish Gangsters Derek Beres 2011
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Made from the Müller-Thurgau grape and planted in a vineyard more than 1,000 meters high, the Tiefenbrunner Feldmarschall was a gorgeously minerally white wine made in an extraordinary place.
Drink, Memory: How to Remember That Wine Lettie Teague 2011
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