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Unornamented

adjective
1.
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation.  Synonyms: bare, plain, spare, unembellished.  "Unembellished white walls" , "Functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"






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"Unornamented" Quotes from Famous Books



... artist in Mirabeau as a writer: he is above that: nor, whatever the range of thought we may justly concede him, may we, therefore, expect the sublime; he is below that. With the eloquence of an impassioned imagination, united to the unornamented vigor of a ready, versatile, and comprehensive reason, he reminds one of some colossal engine in forceful, though not always in ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various

... in a niche some five feet from the ground, its splintered portions bearing decided witness to the dreadful struggle I had made to obtain my freedom. I advanced and examined it closely. It was a frail shell enough—unlined, unornamented—a wretched sample of the undertaker's art, though God knows I had no fault to find with its workmanship, nor with the haste of him who fashioned it. Something shone at the bottom of it—it was a ...
— Vendetta - A Story of One Forgotten • Marie Corelli

... by the truncated columns; which, supporting the groinings of the roof above, terminate abruptly below, nearly upon a level with the capitals of the lowest arches; in the clerestory, the arches are also simple and unornamented; their size nearly intermediate between those of the first and second tiers. It is almost needless to mention, that, in a perfect building, of such a date, the whole of the arches are semi-circular. The same is equally the case in the choir; but this part of the edifice is considerably richer in ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman

... the Cistercian type, with a short chancel of two squares, and transepts with three eastward chapels to each, divided by solid walls (2 2 2). The whole is of the most studied plainness. The windows are unornamented, and the nave has no triforium. The cloister to the south (4) occupies the whole length of the nave. On the east side stands the two-aisled chapter-house (5), between which and the south transept is a small sacristy (3), and on the other side two small apartments, one of which ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



Words linked to "Unornamented" :   undecorated, plain, spare, unadorned, bare



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