adornment

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This was around the time that anti-feminine feminism faded into Third Wave reassessments of girly adornment.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

Canaanland is named for the promised land; its Faith Tabernacle can, and often does, hold 50,000 people in a building that resembles an aircraft hangar, its “almost sterile interior” suggesting that “hope is adornment enough.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

And then with the hair adornment, you have the alligator, you have honey bees.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2024

He really was a meaningless adornment, like hood adornment.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2024

The builders of this stop had hacked and blasted it from the unforgiving earth and made no attempt at adornment, to showcase the difficulty of their feat.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead