Ornamentation

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ornamentation \Or`na*men*ta"tion\, n.
     1. The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being
        ornamented.
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     2. That which ornaments. --C. Kingsley.


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     3. The ornaments embellishing an object, collectively; as,
        each room of the palace had a strikingly different
        ornamentation.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ornamentation
       n 1: the state of being ornamented
       2: something used to beautify [syn: {decoration}, {ornament}]
       3: the act of adding extraneous decorations to something [syn:
          {embellishment}]