Noun : architectural ornaments. ,a book on Gothic ornament. ,a speech more of ornament than of ideas. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to ornament a musical composition. ,Several famous scientists were acquired to ornament the university. From Dictionary.com.
The volume contains the Four Gospels in Latin, ornamented with extraordinary freedom, elaboration, and beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference
It was a sword ornamented with diamonds, and he received it from the hand of the King. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Versailles] Reference
A ponderous cornice richly ornamented, which is now almost gone, runs over this series of sculptures. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Then was seen on the altar a miter glittering with precious stones, and a large sword ornamented with fleur-de-lis. From Wordnik.com. [Chicot the Jester] Reference
He wore a long rapier, ornamented with pink ribbon. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It is wisdom and patience ornamented with gray locks. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
She put on her sealskin toque, ornamented with a branch of holly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
These artists have also ornamented their work with numerous vignettes. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
But it was his boots that caught Lillie's eye: black, ornamented, dazzling. From Wordnik.com. [A Geek Love Story] Reference
They saw the cell which Angelico had ornamented with the loveliest painting. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Another seat, rather more ornamented, was at her right, but it remained empty. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Life trickled forth, and beside it was a door of gold, beautifully ornamented. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
Hypelæus -- the fountain ornamented by Thrason, and the altar sacred to the genius of Ionia. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Sometimes she ornamented them with pictures of animals, queerly drawn, which were thought very fine. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
After all, this highly ornamented style reflects the ostentatiousness of Baroque aristocratic culture. From Wordnik.com. [Dessay Takes Handel for a Ride, with Poetry] Reference
Bordering this was a framework of brick-like squares or tiles, black, and ornamented with white figures. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
They set up in the Rue Vivienne, in a shop resplendent with gilding and ornamented with looking-glasses. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The woodwork and ceiling were in chestnut, which time had polished and a skilful hand had ornamented with. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the back was a pavilion with three windows, with columns and a front ornamented with goats and nymphs. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The Romans ornamented their tombs in a variety of ways, but did not care to represent death in a direct manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
On one side was a gilt bed, with a canopy of tapestry ornamented with feathers, and covered with lace and ornaments. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Almost at the same moment, the gates, ornamented with beaten gold, opened from within and the Arab stood before them. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
The trousers were made of the same material and ornamented with the same kind of fringes and porcupine quills of various colors. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
Wide breeches reached to the knee, and the yellow-and-red striped stuff of which they were made was ornamented below with blue ribbons. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This is the time of heroes and of highly ornamented lays, and we are not surprised to find truth covered up beneath a mass of fulsome bombast. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Connected with the establishment were walks ornamented with flowerbeds, closely clipped hedges, and trees tortured into all sorts of unnatural shapes. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
And the 'Marzocco', the lion symbolical of Florence, was represented above the door, resting his paw on the escutcheon ornamented with the national lys. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His dress was very elegant: a kind of fawn-colored vest, with open sleeves, ornamented with shoulder-knots and blue ribbons, covered him down to the waist. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A strange pity flooded her soul, which caused her to pause in the centre of the large hall, ornamented with statues and columns, which she was in the act of crossing. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This suit that he was so proud of consisted of a hunting shirt of soft, pliable deer skin, ornamented with long fringes of buckskin dyed a bright vermillion or copperas. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
John very soon appeared in front of the house with the pony neatly combed, brushed, and ornamented with a very pretty little white side-saddle and bridle, a present which. From Wordnik.com. [The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People] Reference
The women seldom wear bonnets; they have either a beaver hat, like a man's, or else wear a snow-white cap, tied under their chin, and usually ornamented with a showy ribbon. From Wordnik.com. [The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People] Reference
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