(n.) The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.
(n.) That which ornaments; ornament.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's not just a word, it's an ornament [for women]," Arinç told a crowd celebrating the end of Ramadan in the city of Bursa in an address that decried "moral corruption" in Turkey.
(2) Ornamental plants have long been used for indoor decoration.
(3) About £60m in public funds, for example, is to be spent on an ornamental footbridge across the Thames, the Garden Bridge , which was originally to have been built from the philanthropy of private enterprise until the estimates of its cost rose by £115m to £175m, at which point the London mayor Boris Johnson pledged £30m from Transport for London, with another £30m promised from George Osborne at the Treasury.
(4) Built up at the end of the 19th century to provide large family homes for white-collar workers travelling to the City on the new railway, by the 1930s those homes were being turned into lodging houses, places for single tenants to watch the rain, listen to the mice scuttle, and hang themselves from the ornamental ceiling rose.
(5) According to Cites, about 97% of the species it regulates are commercially traded for food, fuel, forest products, building materials, clothing, ornaments, health care, religious items, collections, trophy hunting and other sport.
(6) Plane trees with pom-poms, dried brown seedpods, swinging ghosts of Christmas ornaments.
(7) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
(8) An ornamental horse stands in the grounds of Yanukovych's presidential compound.
(9) Ethylenethiourea (ETU) is a degradation product from ethylenebisdithiocarbamate such as Zineb and Maneb which have been extensively used in food crops and ornamental plants.
(10) Intentional and non-intentional (ornamental and accidental) tattoos are reviewed.
(11) Many secondary sexual characters are supposed to have evolved as a response to female choice of the most extravagantly ornamented males, a hypothesis supported by studies demonstrating female preferences for the most ornamented males.
(12) Water containing ornamental fishes was found to frequently contain countable numbers of bacteria that were resistant to one or more antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agents.
(13) Holder’s website offers a £2.50 plastic sailing ship described as “wonderfully ornamental but completely pointless vintage Chinese junk”.
(14) The university has already undertaken retrofits, taking advantage of a $3-per-square-foot reimbursement to tear out ornamental grasses, replacing them with drought resistant plants.
(15) The quite different requirements between reconstruction and ornamental studio tattooing can only be satisfied by different techniques.
(16) These loud orthographic markers, in turn, echo the profound divide that separates the Afghans' traditional society from the liberal markets from whence secondhand cars make their journey across continents, sometimes complete with dangerously loaded but misunderstood ornamental accessories.
(17) Morphological variations in Onchocerca armillata and O. gutturosa, from buffalo and cattle, with special reference to male tail and cuticular ornamentation, have been studied from a large collection of worms available from the infected aortae and ligamentum nuchae, procured from slaughter houses at 3 different localities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
(18) On the contrary, the cuticular ornamentation of the posterior region--which is composed of the area rugosa and of a system of bosses and constitutes a secondary non-skid copulatory apparatus--differs following the geographical origin of the strain.
(19) n.) for the species of Procamallanus with the buccal capsule ornamented with punctations.
(20) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.
Rococo
Definition:
(n.) A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The castle used to occupy the most prominent spot in Unter den Linden, opposite Berlin's neo-rococo cathedral and pleasure garden.
(2) Over the last three hours, I've learned about the role of The Royal Society in shaping art, and the difference between baroque and rococo architecture – baroque drew upon elements of the Renaissance, while rococo is basically what Donald Trump's bathroom looks like.
(3) Saddam's palace in Basra was turned into a museum, despite housing what one general called "vulgar, awful imitation rococo interiors".
(4) Addison's shock at receiving praise is convincing, almost as though – after five years in The Thick Of It – he'd been expecting Malcolm Tucker to belabour him with rococo abuse for being too honest.
(5) Rolfe's pope is as cussed, rococo and autodidactic as his author, praying in Greek, dabbling in astrology and smoking in office.
(6) If there’s a Brexit winner, then maybe it’s Gadheim.” Jürgen Götz, the mayor with responsibility for Gadheim, said he hoped the news would encourage more investment and tourism to the area, whichboasts one of the finest rococo gardens in Germany and a medieval pilgrimage site.
(7) It had, he said, ghastly gauche decoration and "vulgar, awful imitation rococo interiors".
(8) The theatre itself took on a feeling of rococo mockery and devilment, too hot, a snake-pit of stabbing jewellery, hair-pieces, hobbling high heels, stifling wraps and unmanageable long frocks.” Osborne on the first night of The World of Paul Slickey “Archie [Rice] leapt off the page at me and he had to be mine.” Laurence Olivier on The Entertainer “Osborne has had the big and brilliant notion of putting the whole of contemporary England on to one and the same stage.
(9) At the age of four I could distinguish a baroque building from a rococo one, and by the age of 13 I loved [Venedikt Erofeev's profanity-filled novella of alcoholic rumination] Moskva-Petushki and Limonov [the nationalist opposition activist known for sexually explicit writing].
(10) On a song called "Rococo", Butler sings of "the modern kids" who "build it up just to burn it back down" and who "seem wild but they are so tame".
(11) Then Mikel presents the ball to Matuidi, but the resulting rococo ramble takes France nowhere.
(12) Antonio Berardi did something different again: his collection, inspired by Rococo interiors and Italian sculpture, was less about trends than about the beautiful clothes that the formidable, fabulous woman who wears Berardi will want to buy.
(13) Having spent time with Peter Mitchell, I finished Tuesday by meeting Jennifer at the Rococo independent coffee house in the city centre.
(14) On the one occasion Bob Paisley’s side managed to scrape a last-minute win, in April 1982, Liverpool still suffered the indignity of conceding one of the greatest team goals of all time , Mick Channon putting his name to a move of such rococo brilliance that it made Clodoaldo, Pele and Carlos Alberto look about as elegant as the Three Stooges.
(15) It's the steampunk-lite fantasy of a pub; nooks, crannies, an apothecary and antlers fixed on rococo papered walls.
(16) Lolita is an incredibly elaborate fashion fad in Tokyo, wherein the wearer dons layers of frilly dresses, bonnets and parasols until they resemble some sort of rococo porcelain doll version of Little Bo Beep – a wonderful contrast to Kitade's bratty, punky music.