adornment
adornment
Definition
adorn·ment (ə dôrn′mənt)
noun
- an adorning or being adorned
- a decoration or ornament
adornment
Synonyms
adornment
n.
The act of decorating
ornamentation, embellishment, gilding; see decoration 1.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
