as in decoration
something that decorates or beautifies
didn't care for Victorian houses and all of their ornamentations
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Recent Examples of ornamentation
But Yee hopes that straight talk and her distinct lack of ornamentation will count for something with California voters.
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Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
Some of those preservationists led efforts at least to rescue parts of the building — including John Vinci and Richard Nickel, who saved the whole interior of the trading room and other ornamentation.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
Too much ornamentation can become quickly dated.
—Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 3 Mar. 2026
His photographs vibrate with the excess of their ornamentation, with an audacity of presence that exceeds the realm of the emblematic.
—Zoë Hopkins, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
Some of those preservationists led efforts at least to rescue parts of the building — including John Vinci and Richard Nickel, who saved the whole interior of the trading room and other ornamentation.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
Too much ornamentation can become quickly dated.
—Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 3 Mar. 2026
His photographs vibrate with the excess of their ornamentation, with an audacity of presence that exceeds the realm of the emblematic.
—Zoë Hopkins, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ornamentation
Noun
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Shoppers can also find mini refrigerators and even Christmas decorations.—
Madeleine Wright,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2026
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If fragrance wants to retain both cultural and commercial strength in the decades ahead, legacy must be treated not as decoration, but as infrastructure.—
Sudhir Gupta,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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What remains in a lot of these tracks, then, are dazzling little ornaments.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
24 Mar. 2026
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The store’s display of wooden German pieces, for example, are reproductions of a line of German ornaments from the late 1920s.—
Emily M. Olson,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Brown and her creative team have gotten caught up in adornment without capturing a deeper undertow that strings it all together.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2026
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Since Fossil started releasing its special-edition ring watches — tapping everyone from Barbie to Nick Jonas and Disney for the task — people started falling in love with the adornments’ more playful side, not to mention mini-watches’ unisex wearability and gift-worthiness.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Ornamentation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ornamentation. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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