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  • adorno
    adorno
    noun
    relief ornament applied to a piece.
  • Adorno
    Adorno
    noun
    Theodor Wiesengrund. 1903–69, German philosopher, sociologist, and music critic. His writings include The Philosophy of the New Music (1949) and Negative Dialectics (1966)

adorno

American  
[uh-dawr-noh] / əˈdɔr noʊ /

noun

Ceramics.
adornos plural
  1. relief ornament applied to a piece.


Adorno British  
/ aˈdɔrno /

noun

  1. Theodor Wiesengrund. 1903–69, German philosopher, sociologist, and music critic. His writings include The Philosophy of the New Music (1949) and Negative Dialectics (1966)

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Origin of adorno

< Spanish, noun derivative of adornar < Latin adōrnāre to adorn

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