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/ˌɔrnəmɛntˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Ornamentation n.

The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.

That which ornaments.

The ornaments embellishing an object, collectively; as, each room of the palace had a strikingly different ornamentation.

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Etymology of 'Ornamentation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... is that of some one else—his stenographer, for instance. Men do not have quite so much opportunity to make themselves ridiculous as women. Their conventions of dress are stricter, and, as a rule, they can express their love of color and ornamentation only in their choice of ties and socks. Girls have practically no restrictions except what happens to be the style at the moment, and a young girl untrained in selecting and combining colors and lines, and making money for the first ...

— The Book of Business Etiquette • Nella Henney

... cinerary urn. The urn was formed of coarse hand-made earthenware, very brittle by long burial in the earth, but not by any means so old or porous as the fragments we had discovered in the long barrow. A pretty pattern ran round its edge—a pattern in the simplest and most primitive style of ornamentation; for it consisted merely of the print of the potter's thumb-nail, firmly pressed into the moist clay before baking. Beside the urn lay a second specimen of early pottery, one of those curious perforated jars which antiquaries call by the very question-begging name of incense-cups; and within ...

— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

... as an opinion but as a thing that I know, seeing it as clearly with my mind, O Fergus, as I see with my eyes thy countenance and form and the foldings of thy fuan [Footnote: Mantle.] and the shape and ornamentation of the wheel- brooch upon thy breast. Without chastity there is no enduring valour in a nation. And thou, too, O Fergus, sitting there in the champion's throne, hast more than once or twice heard ...

— The Coming of Cuculain • Standish O'Grady

... XI.) is made of the skin of a mink—Putorius vison, Gapp. White, downy feathers are secured to the nose, as an additional ornament. In this sack are carried the sacred objects belonging to its owner, such as colors for facial ornamentation, and the magic red powder employed in the preparation of hunters'songs; effigies and other contrivances to prove to the incredulous the genuineness of the Mid[-e] pretensions, sacred songs, amulets, and other small manid[-o]s—abnormal productions to ...

— Seventh Annual Report • Various

... opinion of the big folk at Westminster, and had a future. He had a winning way with women—a subtle, perniciously attractive way with her sex, and to herself he had been delicately persuasive. He had the ancient gift of picturesqueness without ornamentation. He had a strong will and a healthy imagination. He was a man of ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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