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adornment Definition

adorn·ment (ə dôrnmənt)

noun

  1. an adorning or being adorned
  2. a decoration or ornament

adornment Synonyms

adornment

n.

  1. The act of decorating

    ornamentation, embellishment, gilding; see decoration 1.

  2. A decoration

    ornament, trimming, frill, accessory; see decoration 2.

adornment Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • have: The interior of the kirk was clearly designed to have little adornment to distract worshippers from their focus on the minister.
  • include: Scholarly review of the many uses for fossils, up to the present day, including adornment, magic and medicine.

Preposition: at

  • wedding: RELATED ARTICLES Wedding Bouquets for Life One of the most beautiful of the bride's adornments at a wedding is the bouquet.

Adjective modifier

  • personal: Jewelry making is a facet of personal adornment focused on in the Problem Solving class.
  • other: Also often seen on contemporary photos was the usage of some small whistles, anchors or other adornments fixed to the smaller loop.
  • beautiful: A beautiful festive adornment that will grace any door or wall.
  • true: Those two words combine to express the underlying attitude of heart that is a woman's true adornment.
  • facial: People would come from miles away, just to watch the beautiful lady with her sparkling facial adornments.
  • little: The interior of the kirk was clearly designed to have little adornment to distract worshippers from their focus on the minister.

Preposition: on

  • thing: Beads are marvelous adornments on many other things beside jewelry.

Noun used with modifier

  • body: The work produced is some of the best I've had from a body adornment project.
  • roof: The warehouse on the left, now obviously loft style apartments and the building behind it with the roof adornments.
  • head: After diligent experimentation with a hundred wild and wonderous head adornments, I finally found out that I only look good in cowboy hats.
  • wall: Strange parallelism, poster as desktop and wall adornment!

Possessives

  • bride: RELATED ARTICLES Wedding Bouquets for Life One of the most beautiful of the bride's adornments at a wedding is the bouquet.

Preposition: of

  • church: Services The Elder placed great importance on the outward adornment of the church, the singing and the services.
  • life: Wealth and children are an adornment of the life of this world.
  • righteous: Wherefore, the Church of Christ doth celebrate thy most honored memorial today, O adornment of the righteous.

Preposition: for

  • century: Indigenous people have incorporated these natural products into their crafts and adornments for centuries.
  • bride: A selection of jewelry and beautiful adornments for the bride displayed along with unique gift items.

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