ornament
noun
an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part.
has ornamented
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present perfectof ornament (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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She has ornamented it with her specialties: elliptical dialogue and scenes with the thinness and tensile strength of piano wire.
From Time Magazine Archive
At 28, she has ornamented more than a dozen American independent films.
From Time Magazine Archive
The east end has ornamented niches in the angles, it projects a little beyond the compartments, forming a recess, in which is the large window, divided into five lights, with elaborate tracery.
From Ely Cathedral by Anonymous
There are indications that a design in red has ornamented the body.
From Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510 by Holmes, William Henry
But we should remember that God himself has ornamented every thing in nature that has not power to ornament itself.
From Rollo in Geneva by Abbott, Jacob
