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Another word for ornamentation

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Noun

  1. Something that adorns

    See also:

    beautiful

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Another word for ornamentation

Noun
      1. The act of decorating.
      2. A decoration; that which adorns.
      3. A decoration or ornament
      1. An embellishing or being embellished; ornamentation
      2. Something that embellishes, as an ornament, a fictitious touch added to a factual account, a musical phrase, etc.
      3. An unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish.
      1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
      2. (Electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
      3. The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
    See also:

    decoration

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Sentence Examples

  • The ornamentation throughout is beautiful, and the west front especially notable.

  • The invention of colourless Bohemian glass brought in its train the practice of cutting glass, a method of ornamentation for which Venetian glass, from its thinness, was ill adapted.

  • Many of the vessels have four or as many as eight handles, and are decorated with serrated ornamentation, and with the trailed strands of glass already referred to.

  • The earlier stones are devoid of ornamentation, but the later stones and bronzes are sometimes ornamented with designs of leaves, flowers, ox-heads, men and women.

  • Others were afterwards supplied by Benozzo Gozzoli and men of lesser note, and the labour of ornamentation was only discontinued in 1464.

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