Meanings of floral ornament in English

Many of the old tumblers are beautifully engraved, often having floral ornament and dainty rustic scenes.

On the front, the angles formed by the spiral roll are filled by a conventionalized floral ornament (the so-called PALMETTE).

The north side door is a master-work of early Renaissance chiselling, combining mixed Christian and classical motives with a wealth of floral ornament.

The sima or gutter-facing, whose profile is here a cyma recta (concave above and convex below), is enriched with sculptured floral ornament.

The clusters of floral ornaments and festoons reflect one of the fundamental purposes of decorative glory to which all plant life has been decreed.

These papers covered rooms with landscape panoramas or with landscapes in Rococo scroll frames, relieved by decorative panels with busts, statuettes, and floral ornaments.