aureate \ˈor-ē-ət\ adjective: 1. of a golden color or brilliance {aureate light}, 2. marked by grandiloquent and rhetorical style {aureate diction}
Etymology: Middle English aureat, from Medieval Latin aureatus decorated with gold, from Latin aureus
Can you compose a sentence in which aureate appears only once but where both definitions make sense?
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You mean without using zeugma? Dhurr...
"The aureate letters of the Sinaia plates baffled linguists and their three-year-old daughters alike."
Okay, that was kind of weak and I'll admit Googling "texts written in gold." xP But it would be such a pretty double-meaning if done correctly...
The rhetor's aureate speech dazzled his erudite audience.
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