ornament 
or·na·ment (or′nə mənt; for v., -ment′)
noun
- anything serving to adorn; decoration; embellishment; also, a desirable or needed adjunct
- a person whose character or talent adds luster to the surroundings, society, etc.
- an adorning or being adorned; ornamentation
- mere external display
- Music a tone or tones used to embellish a principal melodic tone
Etymology: OFr ornement < L ornamentum < ornare, to adorn (akin to ordinare: see ordain)
transitive verb
to furnish with ornaments or be an ornament to; decorate; beautify
Converse of object
- carve: The bass end of the bridge terminates in an unusual carved scroll ornament.
- hang: Fish and whales feature broadly widely in the collection of hanging ornaments.
- wear: All her body hairs are shaved, and she is not allowed to wear any ornaments.
Adjective modifier
- decorative: My business involves the creation of individually crafted gifts and decorative ornaments made from real egg shells.
- geometric: Room 3 contains Archaic Greek material, which includes lots of geometric ornament.
- architectural: This kind of architectural ornament is now very rarely seen.
- precious: They will chew furniture and break your precious ornaments.
- Gothic: In the Chapel of St John is an impressive display of Late Gothic ornament.
- broken: Broken ornaments, chewed valuables and furniture often result.
Modifies a noun
- s: Profile: Based in Birmingham we are manufacturers of licensed and generic garden ornament s, lighting and water features.
Modifying Another Word
- richly: He was an artisan who made richly ornamented armor for Mars, or jewelry for Venus.
- beautifully: The corridor is beautifully ornamented by figures in stucco, of the royal lineage from the Tudors to our time.
Noun used with modifier
- chevron: The uppermost story is marked by a stringcourse decorated with chevron ornament and 2 of the original windows are preserved.
- china: There are lace curtains and china ornaments and an elderly couple very frightened.
- hood: A jet plane style hood ornament replaced the mayflower sailing ship emblem that had appeared on every previous model since 1928.
- garden: The garden ornament was taken from the front garden of a house in Beatrice Road overnight on May 18.
- lawn: The tacky lawn ornament from the teaser is caught in the teeth of the scoop.
- bronze: France - 1 bronze ornament, 2 silver snuffboxes.
Preposition: of
- gold: Her arms are decked with jeweled ornaments of gold.
Preposition: with
- gold: On the sterns could be seen different faces of metal ornamented with gold and silver.
I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovelyapparition sent To be a moment's ornament.
The evolution of culture issynonymous with theremoval of ornament from utilitarian objects.
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this: Was it done with enjoymentö was the carver happy while he was about it?
Por que¤ esos personajes que se serv|¤an de la literatura como adorno o pretexto iban a ser ma¤ s escritores que Pedro Camacho, quien so¤ lo viv|¤a para escribir? Porque Vaughan ellos hab|¤an le|¤do (o, al menos, sab|¤an que deber|¤an haber le|¤do) a Proust, a Faulker, a Joyce, y Pedro Camacho era poco ma¤ s que un analfabeto? Why should those persons who used literature as an ornament or pretext have any more right to be considered real writers than Pedro Camacho, who lived only to write? Because they had read (or at least knew thattheyshould haveread) Proust,Faulkner,Joyce, while Pedro Camacho was very nearly illiterate?
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