ornament
/ˈɔɹnəmənt/ verb C2- To decorate. · We will ornament the windows with trim to make the room seem brighter.
- To add to. · The editor ornamented his plain writing, making it fancier but less clear.
He/she/it ornaments · Past ornamented · Past participle ornamented · -ing form ornamenting
Verb forms
- Base form
- ornament
- He/she/it
- ornaments
- Past
- ornamented
- Past participle
- ornamented
- -ing form
- ornamenting
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First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did.
After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples: they were all ornamented with hearts.
Her glossy dark-brown hair showed its coils beneath a cheap hat of black straw whose only ornament was a velvet ribbon and bow.
“Her indifferent state of health unhappily prevents her being in town; and by that means, as I told Lady Catherine myself one day, has deprived the British Court of its brightest ornament.
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