ornament

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or·na·ment1 /ˈɔːnəmənt $ ˈɔːr-/ noun

1 [countableC]DHHDECORATE a small object that you keep in your house because it is beautiful rather than useful 装饰品，点缀物，饰物，摆设

a shelf covered with books and ornaments

摆满书籍和装饰品的架子

5a cabinet in which she kept her collection of china ornaments

她放置瓷器摆设收藏品的柜子

n china ornaments

2 [uncountableU]DHDECORATE decoration that is added to something 装饰，点缀

The building style is plain, with very little ornament.

该建筑风格朴素，极少使用装饰。

for ornament

The coins were only ever used for ornament, not as currency.

这些硬币从来只用于装饰，而不作为货币使用。

Examples from the Corpus

ornament• Now Boston gets offered the Massachusetts as an ornament.• Christmas ornaments• Thieves stole all the silver and gold ornaments from the palace.• The music building is a structure with simple but gracious ornament.• The species is beautifully preserved, retaining something of its original lustre, and all the fine details of its ornament.• When she moved, ornaments rattled.• I have no use for second-hand books and unfashionable clothes and bits of ornament.• Top weighting had to be achieved by the disposition of proportion, ornament and light.• You see that the ornaments we are discussing are nothing if not arbitrary.• I bought a new Christmas tree ornament - do you want to see it?• Ugly ornaments don't deserve to exist.

or·na·ment2 /ˈɔːnəment $ ˈɔːr-/ verb

be ornamented with something AVDECORATEto be decorated with something 用某物装饰，装饰有某物

a silver goblet ornamented with pearls

缀有珍珠的银制高脚酒杯

richly/exquisitely/lavishly etc ornamented

a table richly ornamented with carvings

雕刻繁复的桌子

Examples from the Corpus

richly/exquisitely/lavishly etc ornamented• This means that the building is, however richly ornamented, a simple hall.• The Cathedral is a remarkable building, richly ornamented inside and out.• It was more adaptable and was less expensive as it had the quality of being effective, whether richly ornamented or not.• Each Gospel begins with a richly ornamented page in which the opening words of the text are submerged by the decoration.• The buttresses themselves became larger, heavier and richly ornamented with carving and panelling.• Wearing tunic and hose of pale blue satin lavishly ornamented with silver, he looked more angelic than ever.

Examples from the Corpus

ornament• Sometimes the blades were elaborately ornamented.• To the left was a dinosaur of a stone pulpit, all arched and ornamented.• Veins are often dark reddish brown and the blade somewhat ornamented by reddish brown irregular spots.• The corners of the enclosure were ornamented by sculptured funerary lions devouring stags.• He specialised in lead figures of which excellent examples are found at Powis Castle in Powys, ornamenting the spectacular hanging terraces.• One in particular, about a metre high, pale lemon in colour, was ornamented with neo-classical bandings in blue and gold.

Origin ornament1

(1300-1400) Old French ornement, from Latin ornamentum, from ornare; → ORNATE

or·na·ment1 nounor·na·ment2 verb

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