Significados de ornamental appendage en inglés

The Northern wiseacres considered cavalry an encumbrance and a staff a mere ornamental appendage.

Mr. Presby was a philosopher, and his library had not been a merely ornamental appendage of his house.

Why is it that gentlemen who possess this ornamental appendage to their upper lip persist in using it so unkindly?

By kindness and firmness they were easily broken in, and then a whip was only an ornamental appendage of the driver's picturesque costume.

The Princess left the two alone together, and Jennie saw that Gretlich was not the least ornamental appendage to the handsome suite of rooms.

The inns in France along the banks of the Loire, are less deficient in substantial comforts than in these ornamental appendages.

The young master's quick eye soon noticed that a particular part of the wall was most favored with these ornamental appendages.

We have now to consider a subordinate but very widespread phenomenon--thedifferences of colour or of ornamental appendages in the two sexes.

"The poor old chap has been an ornamental appendage so long that he can't make up his mind to anything else," said Jock.