orchidaceous
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3VERB + ORCHIDACEOUS
keeping
ORCHIDACEOUS + NOUN
theme
PREP.
with
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adj
Of or pertaining to orchids.
In keeping with the orchidaceous theme of the wedding, the decorator draped the walls with lavenders and pinks.
Exotic in a rare, mysterious, alluring, or sensual way.
These stories were variously received. […] J. D. found them “charged with Corvonian idiosyncrasy, a jumble-jargon composed of modern slang, old English, Latin, Italian and Greek,” adding: “The Corvo vocabulary is orchidaceous.”
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2In keeping with the orchidaceous theme of the wedding, the decorator draped the walls with lavenders and pinks.
WiktionaryThese stories were variously received. […] J. D. found them “charged with Corvonian idiosyncrasy, a jumble-jargon composed of modern slang, old English, Latin, Italian and Greek,” adding: “The Corvo v
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