ornament
/ˈɔɹnəmənt/ noun B2- An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
- Christmas ornament: a Christmas tree decoration.
- A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
- The articles used in church services.
- A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)
Plural ornaments
From the library
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.
Collins pointed out, with a rapturous air, the fine proportion and finished ornaments, they followed the servants through an antechamber to the room where Lady Catherine, her daughter, and Mrs.
Those to her mother contained little else than that they were just returned from the library, where such and such officers had attended them, and where she had seen such beautiful ornaments as made her quite wild; that she had a new gown, or a new parasol, which she would have described more fully, but was obliged to leave off in a violent hurry, as Mrs.
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