adornment
Example Sentences
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Adornment with ample, lavish fabric indicated that one had wealth and a high rank.
From Slate • Nov. 17, 2015
Tribal Adornment, design your own tribal bracelet based on Native American symbols.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2014
Its four divisions are the Object as Statement, the Object Made for Use, the Object as Vessel and the Object for Personal Adornment.
From Time Magazine Archive
This Adornment, with their long black Hair, and the Face painted in little Specks or Flowers here and there, makes ’em a wonderful Figure to behold.
From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague
Nature, and Nature only, here has brought Adornment.
From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Skeats, Wilfred S.
Vocabulary lists containing adornment
"The Gift of the Magi"
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