ornament
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LeBron James is now a fancy hood ornament on a broken-down jalopy.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026
The traditional three-pointed-star hood ornament is reduced to a mere outcropping in a sea of monograms.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service reported Thursday.
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
To begin with, the pair's practice focused on sleek, stripped-down buildings with little or no ornament, in which a structure's function was meant to dictate its form.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025
On a low stool before one of them sat Rekh the goldsmith, using a pointed blowpipe to direct the heat onto a golden ornament he held carefully in copper tongs.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Vocabulary lists containing ornament
"Macbeth": Act 1 Scene 7
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