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Meanings of ornament in English
Usage of ornament in English
1
Slowly she lifted the beautiful ornament and held it in the light.
2
He is not more rich in artificial ornament than in moral admonition.
3
His great rival however surpassed him in labors to ornament the capital.
4
Perhaps His Grey Grace will choose you to ornament his stony court.
5
So the first idea of ornament was to copy the interlacing forms.
6
He has long been viewed as an ornament of his fine nation.
7
Germany came to do a job and they did it without ornament.
8
Tantaine took three visiting cards from a china ornament on the mantelshelf.
9
It was pure to austerity; it was stripped of all superfluous ornament.
10
A china ornament on the mantelpiece reeled, and fell with a crash.
11
I think everyone will agree that they're an ornament to the world.
12
Wealth and children are an ornament of the life of the world.
13
A fool was the ornament held in next estimation to a dwarf.
14
This table did not strike me particularly; it appeared overloaded with ornament.
15
In fact, the study of ornament is inseparable from that of architecture.
16
Hospitality is the ornament, and has been the ruin, of the aborigine.
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Translations for ornament
Portuguese
Ornament through the time
Ornament across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common