adornment
something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
ornamentation; embellishment: personal adornment.
Origin of adornment
1Other words from adornment
- non·a·dorn·ment, noun
- pre·a·dorn·ment, noun
- re·a·dorn·ment, noun
- self-a·dorn·ment, noun
- su·per·a·dorn·ment, noun
- un·a·dorn·ment, noun
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How to use adornment in a sentence
On some butterfly wings, “tails” may be more than just elegant adornments.
Artists like Summer Walker, Kehlani, and Amber Rose among others all have script-font names or small images tattooed on their faces to commemorate special people or events in their own lives, or simply as a means of adornment.
Understanding magnesium-40 could help scientists firm up their accounting of nuclei’s neutron adornments.
A new particle accelerator aims to unlock secrets of bizarre atomic nuclei | Emily Conover | November 15, 2021 | Science NewsThe settings are always crucial to these threadbare stories, with their complete lack of adornment — just a man, a voice, and a journey somewhere very, very scary.
One Good Thing: Knifepoint Horror, a collection of campfire ghost stories in podcast form | Aja Romano | October 29, 2021 | VoxEverything was just so very big — and with adornment to boot.
Fashion Week Dispatch: Jason Wu and Rag and Bone | Erin Cunningham | February 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The trend for adornment amongst Middle Eastern women is nothing new, but nail polish is often left out of the equation.
Breathable Nail Polish Fits Muslim Women's Religious Restrictions | Misty White Sidell | January 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Norway maple came to North America in the 18th century, imported by a Philadelphia merchant and peddled as a garden adornment.
A footnote toward the end of the book gives a short, wonderful history of human adornment, but the discussion remains didactic.
Objectively Speaking: Stephanie LaCava’s ‘An Extraordinary Theory of Objects’ | Lauren Elkin | December 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe same two impulses are said to lie at the root of the elaborate art of personal adornment developed by savages.
Children's Ways | James SullyYet I think if we observe closely we shall detect traces of a spontaneous impulse towards self-adornment.
Children's Ways | James SullyImitation of the ways of their elders doubtless plays a part here, but it is aided by an instinct for adornment.
Children's Ways | James SullyOne of the lower and mixed forms of artistic activity, in the case of the child and of the race alike, is personal adornment.
Children's Ways | James SullyLittle girls perhaps represent the attractive function of adornment: they like to be thought pretty.
Children's Ways | James Sully
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