Usage of "ornamentation"

português

ornato

catalão

ornament

espanhol

decoración

Something used to beautify.

ornato

português

decoração

catalão

ornamentació

The act of adding extraneous decorations to something.

embellishment

decoração

Uso de ornamentation em inglês

He pointed in turn to the rude ornamentation in the shell clasp. 
 54-40 or Fight 

It's Roman in feeling and Greek in the refinement of its ornamentation. 
 The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts an... 

The buildings were higher and much more pretentious in design and ornamentation. 
 Tarzan the Untamed 

This time, Ransome thought, the ornamentation must be in honor of Edwina. 
 The Rains Came 

The ornamentation that does not cover strength is the gewgaws of babble. 
 Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr... 

Thus far the Lower Park has received the greatest amount of ornamentation. 
 Lights and Shadows of New York Life / or, the Sights and Sensati... 

Elise Gavard, is the very sophistication of the art of musical ornamentation. 
 Chopin : the Man and His Music 

I use the castle's. These bore no ornamentation except the Tokugawa crest. 
 Bundori 

Yet, of such as these is the ornamentation of all Japanese temples. 
 Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II / From Teheran To Yoko... 

This cut gives us a good example of this style of ornamentation. 
 The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races 

Second, resume with inflexible determination exterior ornamentation of entire structure of Temple. 
 Messages to America / Selected Letters and Cablegrams Addressed ... 

There was no unnecessary ornamentation of any kind, and lighting was minimal. 
 The Runaway Asteroid 

Pure Shinto requires that a miya should be without gilding or ornamentation. 
 Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series 

Is it writing that appears on it, or is it only ornamentation? 
 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 

Between the patterns and colors and ornamentation, my head begins to hurt. 
 Altered 

The architect has laid especial stress upon the architectural ornamentation of the building. 
 Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 