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Ornamentation

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

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Adornment 76% connected

An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

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Arabesque 76% connected

A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as…

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Beading 76% connected

of Bead

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Beadwork 76% connected

Ornamental work in beads.

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Bow 76% connected

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

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Brass 76% connected

An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes cont…

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Centerpiece 76% connected

Alt. of Centrepiece

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Centrepiece 76% connected

An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.

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Cockade 76% connected

A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party…

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Design 76% connected

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Embellishment 76% connected

The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Fin 76% connected

To carve or cut up, as a chub.

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Finial 76% connected

The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itse…

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Frill 76% connected

To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.

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Gargoyle 76% connected

A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.

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Garnish 76% connected

To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.

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Gimcrack 76% connected

A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.

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Graffiti 76% connected

Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.

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Hanging 76% connected

of Hang

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Incrustation 76% connected

The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.

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Inlay 76% connected

To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental…

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Knob 76% connected

A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.

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Lunula 76% connected

Same as Lunule.

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Molding 76% connected

of Mould

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Moulding 76% connected

of Mould

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necklet 76% connected

A necklace.

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Nonsense 76% connected

That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

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Overlay 76% connected

To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

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Pattern 76% connected

Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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Pommel 76% connected

A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form

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Rivet 76% connected

A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down…

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Sgraffito 76% connected

Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design…

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Spiral 76% connected

Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.

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Sprig 76% connected

A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.

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Stud 76% connected

A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.

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Tinsel 76% connected

A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin met…

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Trumpery 76% connected

Deceit; fraud.

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Volute 76% connected

A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite…

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Artefact 76% connected

a man-made object taken as a whole

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Artifact 76% connected

a man-made object taken as a whole

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Decoration 76% connected

The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Ornament 74% connected

That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.

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Ornament 74% connected

That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.

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Synonym 3

Decoration 92% connected

The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.

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Embellishment 92% connected

The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.

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Ornament 92% connected

That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.

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