Ornamentation Synonyms

ôrnə-mĕn-tāshən
The act of adding extraneous decorations to something
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. embellishment
  2. decoration
  3. adornment
  4. ornament
  5. elaboration

Words Related to Ornamentation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. beautiful
  2. scrollwork
  3. arabesque
  4. fretwork
  5. decorative-style

Ornamentation 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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