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noun

Ornamentation n.

The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.

That which ornaments.

The ornaments embellishing an object, collectively; as, each room of the palace had a strikingly different ornamentation.

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Etymology of 'Ornamentation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ornamentation" Quotes from Famous Books

... made of coarse paste, either gray or brown in colour. Some had a kind of rude finish, the marks of a coarse fibre cloth being clearly discernible on the outside. Others were primitively decorated with incisions. One sherd of really fine thin red ware was picked up, but there was no trace of ornamentation on it. We found, besides, a few cores of felsite and some shapeless flakes and several fragments of ...

— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz

... porticos, the colonnades and entrances are replete with rococo decorations. There are garlands of girls used in the friezes at the base of the minarets, caryatides repeated in the vestibules, and everywhere a wealth of ornamentation suggestive of a bountiful harvest. The brilliancy of design is heightened by the color scheme of green and ivory used upon the lattice work and travertine material. Messrs. Bakewell and Brown of ...

— The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition • Louis Christian Mullgardt

... were metal trimmings. "They look like silver," said George, excitedly; "and what is this? It seems to be silver," as he brushed a bracelet-like piece of ornamentation with the sleeve of his coat. As they advanced new articles came in sight; a bench; a veritable chair, or couch, the covering of which was there merely to give it form, but the substance had gone. Only the wood remained ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay

... a compromise and built what is called a modern house with bath-room and furnace (after the air-tight-stove craze passed), with jigsaw ornamentation outside and in, pretentious-looking dwellings with no proper kitchen accompaniments, and an unsavory garbage-barrel in the small back yard, under the next neighbor's windows. These houses are so close together ...

— The Cost of Shelter • Ellen H. Richards

... palace built by Egypt for the Exposition, there was arranged a sort of entertainment for the Viceroy, to which we were invited with the Prince and Princess Metternich. This palace is a large, square, white building of oriental ornamentation and architecture, with a courtyard in the center, where we were received by the Khedive and his suite. A fountain was playing in the middle of the courtyard of marble, surrounded by palmettos and plants of every ...

— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone

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