Ornamentation

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act or process of decorating, adorning, or embellishing.
  • noun. The state of being decorated, adorned, or embellished.
  • noun. Something that decorates or adorns; an embellishment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act or process of ornamenting or of producing ornament.
  • noun. Ornament in general; the whole mass of ornament applied to an object or used in combination: as, the ornamentation of a building.
  • noun. In zoology, the colors, markings, hairs, spines, etc., on the surface of an animal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.
  • noun. That which ornaments.
  • noun. The ornaments embellishing an object, collectively.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Decoration, adornment or embellishment.
  • noun. The act or process of decorating etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. something used to beautify
  • noun. the act of adding extraneous decorations to something
  • noun. the state of being ornamented
  • Word Usage
    "The sixth proposition above stated, that _Gothic ornamentation is nobler than Greek ornamentation_, etc., is therefore sufficiently proved by the acceptance of this one principle, no less important than unassailable."
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    decoration  state  
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