elaborately

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   with elaboration

   It was elaborately spelled out.

2. 2
   adv

   In an elaborate manner.

   Glamour for its own sake is not something I have ever been particularly interested in," Stella McCartney said backstage after her catwalk show. Which could sound like a facetious statement from a fashion designer who was, at that moment, standing among the marble-slabbed floors, elaborately frescoed ceilings and giant chandeliers of the Palais Garnier opera house, where the show was staged.

From elaborate + -ly.

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